Neural mechanism of proposer's decision-making in the ultimatum and dictator games

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 357-362

  Zheng, Hong Ming ^a   Zhu, Li Qi ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Brain; Brain activation; Cognition; Decision making; Emotion; Fair behavior; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Grants supported paper; Neural mechanism; Neural regeneration; Neuroimaging; Neuroregeneration; Photographs containing paper

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHINA; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890821399     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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