Investment and repayment in a trust game after ventromedial prefrontal damage

Although trust and reciprocity are ubiquitous in social exchange, their neurobiological substrate remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated the effect of damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) — a brain region critical for valuing social information — on individuals' decis...

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Main Authors: Giovanna eMoretto, Manuela eSellitto, Giuseppe edi Pellegrino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00593/full