Neural responses to advantageous and disadvantageous inequity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Fliessbach, Klaus ^a,b   Phillipps, Courtney B ^a   Trautner, Peter ^b   Schnabel, Marieke ^b   Elger, Christian E ^a,b   Falk, Armin ^b   Weber, Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equity norm; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Social preferences; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANTAGEOUS INEQUITY; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; DISADVANTAGEOUS INEQUITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84864242390     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00165     Document Type: Article

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