Unfolding the Spatial and Temporal Neural Processing of Making Dishonest Choices.

ABSTRACT: To understand the neural processing that underpins dishonest behavior in an economic exchange game task, this study employed both functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and event-related potential (ERP) methodologies to examine the neural conditions of 25 participants while they were making either dishonest or honest choices. It was discovered that dishonest choices, contrary to honest choices, elicited stronger fMRI activations in bilateral striatum and anterior insula. It also induced fluctuations in ERP amplitudes within two time windows, which are 270-30 milliseconds before and 110-290 milliseconds after the response, respectively. Importantly, when making either dishonest or honest choices, human and computer counterparts were associated with distinct fMRI activations in the lef

SUBMITTER: Sun D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4838301 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature