Lying and the Subsequent Desire for Toothpaste: Activity in the Somatosensory Cortex Predicts Embodiment of the Moral-Purity Metaphor

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 477-484

  Denke, Claudia ^a   Rotte, Michael ^b   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^b   Schaefer, Michael ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodiment; FMRI; Moral; Premotor cortex; Social; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

MOUTHWASH; TOOTHPASTE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLEANING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; BLOOD; DECISION MAKING; FACTOR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; MORALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOOTHPASTES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960340020     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu170     Document Type: Article

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