Individual differences in level of wisdom are associated with brain activation during a moral decision-making task.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Wisdom is reportedly associated with better health and quality of life. However, our knowledge of the neurobiology of wisdom is still in the early stages of development. We aimed to improve our understanding by correlating a psychometric measure of the trait with patterns of brain activation produced by a cognitive task theorized to be relevant to wisdom: moral decision-making. In particular, we aimed to determine whether individual differences in wisdom interact with moral task complexity in relation to brain activation.

Methods

Participants were 39 community-dwelling men and women aged 27-76 years, who completed moral and nonmoral decision-making tasks while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain activation in select regions of interest was co

SUBMITTER: Thomas ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6577614 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature