Disrupting the right prefrontal cortex alters moral judgement

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 282-288

  Tassy, Sébastien ^a,b   Oullier, Olivier ^c   Duclos, Yann ^d   Coulon, Olivier ^e   Mancini, Julien ^b,f   Deruelle, Christine ^a   Attarian, Sharam ^b,g   Felician, Olivier ^b,g   Wicker, Bruno ^a,h  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^g INSERM   (France)

^h UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Decision; Emotion; Moral judgement; Right prefrontal cortex; rTMS; Utilitarism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84858633223     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr008     Document Type: Article

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