Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala Underlies Individual Differences in Prosocial and Individualistic Economic Choices

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1861-1870

  Haruno, Masahiko ^a,b   Kimura, Minoru ^c   Frith, Christopher D ^d,e  

^a National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; INSULA; INTUITION; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; BRAIN CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INDIVIDUALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903388150     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00589     Document Type: Article

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