Ventral medial prefrontal cortex and person evaluation: Forming impressions of others varying in financial and moral status

NeuroImage

Volumn 100, Issue , 2014, Pages 535-543

  Cloutier, Jasmin ^a   Gyurovski, Ivo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Person evaluation; Person perception; Social cognition; Social status; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MORALS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904040565     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.06.024     Document Type: Article

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