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SUBMITTER: Feldmanhall O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3980797 | biostudies-other | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20130115 3
Research has illustrated that the brain regions implicated in moral cognition comprise a robust and broadly distributed network. However, understanding how these brain regions interact and give rise to the complex interplay of cognitive processes underpinning human moral cognition is still in its infancy. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine patterns of activation for 'difficult' and 'easy' moral decisions relative to matched non-moral comparators. This revealed an activation ...[more]