Is dorsal anterior cingulate cortex activation in response to social exclusion due to expectancy violation? An fMRI study

Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2012, Pages

  Kawamoto, Taishi ^a   Onoda, Keiichi ^b   Nakashima, Ken'ichiro ^c   Nittono, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Shuhei ^b   Ura, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nagasaki Women's Junior College   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Expectancy violation; Social exclusion; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874218561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1663070X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnevo.2012.00011     Document Type: Article

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