Money talks: Neural substrate of modulation of fairness by monetary incentives

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Yuan ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Rao, Li Lin ^a   Yang, Liu Qing ^a   Li, Shu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fairness; Insula; Lateral prefrontal cortex; Normative decision; Ultimatum game

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FAIRNESS RELATED NORMATIVE DECISION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MONETARY INCENTIVE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

EID: 84899873017     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00150     Document Type: Article

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