"Rationality" enhancement through anodal tDCS over the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

ABSTRACT: Experimental findings challenge classical economic theories by demonstrating that people are not solely self-interested but also have social preferences, such as fairness and reciprocity, that often conflict with self-interest motives. An ongoing debate examines whether social preferences arise automatically (requiring deliberate actions to ensure economic self-interest) or require cognitive control (implying that self-interest is the default motive and must be inhibited). Two distinct cognitive-control brain regions, each with potentially unique inhibitory functions, have been implicated in managing this conflict: the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (rVLPFC). Despite extensive neuromodulation research on the rDLPFC, the role of t

SUBMITTER: Slater J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12301455 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature