A neuropsychological test of belief and doubt: Damage to ventromedial prefrontal cortex increases credulity for misleading advertising

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JULY, 2012, Pages

  Asp, Erik ^a   Manzel, Kenneth ^a   Koestner, Bryan ^a   Cole, Catherine A ^b   Denburg, Natalie L ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Belief; Credulity; Deception; Doubt; False tagging theory; Lesion; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RELIGION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865077990     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00100     Document Type: Article

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