Interindividual neural differences in moral decision-making are mediated by alpha power and delta/theta phase coherence.

ABSTRACT: As technology in Artificial Intelligence has developed, the question of how to program driverless cars to respond to an emergency has arisen. It was recently shown that approval of the consequential behavior of driverless cars varied with the number of lives saved and showed interindividual differences, with approval increasing alongside the number of lives saved. In the present study, interindividual differences in individualized moral decision-making at both the behavioral and neural level were investigated using EEG. It was found that alpha event-related spectral perturbation (ERSP) and delta/theta phase-locking - intertrial coherence (ITC) and phase-locking value (PLV) - play a central role in mediating interindividual differences in Moral decision-making. In addition, very late alpha

SUBMITTER: Wolff A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6418194 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature