Spatiotemporal neural dynamics of moral judgment: A high-density ERP study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 39-45

  Yoder, Keith J ^a   Decety, Jean ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive empathy; High density EEG ERPs; Moral judgment; Right temporoparietal junction; Source localization; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE EMPATHY; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE EMPATHY; EMPATHY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHODYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMPATHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902294475     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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