Listening to your heart and feeling yourself: Effects of exposure to interoceptive signals during the ultimatum game

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 230, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 233-241

  Lenggenhager, Bigna ^a,b   Azevedo, Ruben T ^a,d   Mancini, Alessandra ^c,d   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic game; Fairness; Heartbeat; Interoception; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EXPOSURE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; GAME; HEART BEAT; HEART SOUND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HEART SOUNDS; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887456855     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3647-5     Document Type: Article

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