Social equality in the number of choice options is represented in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 6413-6421

  Aoki, Ryuta ^a,b   Matsumoto, Madoka ^a   Yomogida, Yukihito ^a,b   Izuma, Keise ^b,c   Murayama, Kou ^b,d   Sugiura, Ayaka ^e   Camerer, Colin F ^c   Adolphs, Ralph ^c   Matsumoto, Kenji ^a  

^a TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neuroeconomics; Reward system; Social comparison

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; REWARD; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EQUALITY; STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

NEUROECONOMICS; REWARD SYSTEM; SOCIAL COMPARISON;

BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899625433     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4427-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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