Neural computations underlying social risk sensitivity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Lauharatanahirun, Nina ^a,b,c   Christopoulos, George I ^a,d,e   King Casas, Brooks ^a,b,c,f  

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

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

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f Virginia Tech Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Individual differences; Risk; Social neuroscience; Trust

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933671076     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00213     Document Type: Article

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