Empathy Moderates the Effect of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation of the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex on Costly Punishment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Brüne, Martin ^a   Scheele, Dirk ^b   Heinisch, Christine ^a   Tas, Cumhur ^a   Wischniewski, Julia ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^c  

^a Landschaftsverband Westfalen Lippe   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866372485     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044747     Document Type: Article

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