Contextual and perceptual brain processes underlying moral cognition: A quantitative meta-analysis of moral reasoning and moral emotions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Sevinc, Gunes ^a,b,c   Nathan Spreng, R ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LINGUAL GYRUS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTION; META ANALYSIS; MORALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MORALS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84895082528     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087427     Document Type: Article

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