A causal role for posterior medial frontal cortex in choice-induced preference change

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 3598-3606

  Izuma, Keise ^a,b   Akula, Shyam ^c   Murayama, Kou ^d   Wu, Daw An ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^e   Adolphs, Ralph ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude; Choice justification; Cognitive dissonance; Medial prefrontal cortex; Preference change; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOICE INDUCED PREFERENCE CHANGE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOWN REGULATION; EFFECT SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE DISSONANCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84923361652     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4591-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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