Necessary, yet dissociable contributions of the insular and ventromedial prefrontal cortices to norm adaptation: Computational and lesion evidence in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 467-473

  Gu, Xiaosi ^a,b   Wang, Xingchao ^c   Hula, Xandreas ^a   Wang, Shiwei ^c   Xu, Shuai ^c   Lohrenz, Terry M ^b   Knight, Robert T ^d   Gao, Zhixian ^c   Dayan, Peter ^e   Montague, P Read ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain lesion; Computational modeling; Decision making; Insular cortex; Social norms; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BOOTSTRAPPING; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INSULA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL SENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL NORM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL NORMS;

EID: 84920984416     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2906-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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