Punishing unfairness: Rewarding or the organization of a reactively aggressive response?

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2137-2147

  White, Stuart F ^a   Brislin, Sarah J ^b   Sinclair, Stephen ^a   Blair, James R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Altruistic punishment; Cognitive neuroscience; Functional MRI; Reactive aggression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; COOPERATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORGANIZATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS; THREAT; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BLOOD; BRAIN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; MORALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; BRAIN; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; OXYGEN; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898046836     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22316     Document Type: Article

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