Reappraising the ultimatum: An fMRI study of emotion regulation and decision making

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 399-410

  Grecucci, Alessandro ^a   Giorgetta, Cinzia ^a   Van't Wout, Mascha ^b   Bonini, Nicolao ^a   Sanfey, Alan G ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

decision making; emotion regulation; mentalizing; reappraisal; Ultimatum Game

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DOWN REGULATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR INSULA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UPREGULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872363103     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs028     Document Type: Article

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