Neurofunctional correlates of esthetic and moral judgments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 534, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 128-132

  Avram, Mihai ^a,c   Gutyrchik, Evgeny ^a,c   Bao, Yan ^a,c,d   Pöppel, Ernst ^a,c,d   Reiser, Maximilian ^b   Blautzik, Janusch ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Parmenides Center for Art and Science   (Germany)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Esthetic judgments; FMRI; Moral judgments; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC JUDGEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MORAL JUDGMENT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THINKING; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84873057324     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.053     Document Type: Article

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