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SUBMITTER: Cooper JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2919841 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cooper Jeffrey C JC Kreps Tamar A TA Wiebe Taylor T Pirkl Tristana T Knutson Brian B
Neuron 20100801 3
In social decision-making, people care both about others' outcomes and their intentions to help or harm. How the brain integrates representations of others' intentions with their outcomes, however, is unknown. In this study, participants inferred others' decisions in an economic game during functional magnetic resonance imaging. When the game was described in terms of donations, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) activation increased for inferring generous play and decreased for inferring se ...[more]