Spatial gradient in value representation along the medial prefrontal cortex reflects individual differences in prosociality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7851-7856

  Sul, Sunhae ^a,c   Tobler, Philippe N ^b   Hein, Grit ^b   Leiberg, Susanne ^b   Jung, Daehyun ^a   Fehr, Ernst ^b   Kim, Hackjin ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior insula; Computational model; Medial prefrontal cortex; Reinforcement learning; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REINFORCEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934971435     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423895112     Document Type: Article

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