Neural circuits in the brain that are activated when mitigating criminal sentences

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yamada, Makiko ^a,b   Camerer, Colin F ^c   Fujie, Saori ^a   Kato, Motoichiro ^d   Matsuda, Tetsuya ^e   Takano, Harumasa ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Suhara, Tetsuya ^a   Takahashi, Hidehiko ^a,b,e,f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONFLICT; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OFFENDER; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN WAVES; COGNITION; CRIMINALS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; JUDICIAL ROLE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PUNISHMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859188266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1757     Document Type: Article

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