TMS affects moral judgment, showing the role of DLPFC and TPJ in cognitive and emotional processing

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Jeurissen, Danique ^a,b,c   Sack, Alexander T ^b   Roebroeck, Alard ^b   Russ, Brian E ^d   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emotion and reason; Morality; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE DISSOCIATION; EMOTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84898020324     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00018     Document Type: Article

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