Differences and commonalities in the judgment of causality in physical and social contexts: An fMRI study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2572-2580

  Wende, Kim C ^a   Nagels, Arne ^a   Blos, Johannes ^a   Stratmann, Mirjam ^a   Chatterjee, Anjan ^b   Kircher, Tilo ^a   Straube, Benjamin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause and effect; FMRI; Launching event; Physical causality; Social causality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VIDEORECORDING;

CAUSE-AND-EFFECT; FMRI; LAUNCHING EVENT; PHYSICAL CAUSALITY; SOCIAL CAUSALITY;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886289840     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.07.027     Document Type: Article

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