Neural correlates of advantageous and disadvantageous inequity in sharing decisions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Guroʇlul, Berna ^a   Will, Geert Jan ^a   Crone, Eveline A ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL COGNITION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; GAME; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMIC; NERVE NET; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907221096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107996     Document Type: Article

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