PMID- 23067061
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140320
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1939-2222 (Electronic)
IS  - 0022-1015 (Linking)
VI  - 142
IP  - 3
DP  - 2013 Aug
TI  - In search of integrative processes: basic psychological need satisfaction 
      predicts medial prefrontal activation during decisional conflict.
PG  - 967-978
LID - 10.1037/a0030257 [doi]
AB  - Research has shown that people's abilities to develop and act from a coherent 
      sense of self are facilitated by satisfaction of the basic psychological needs 
      for competence, relatedness, and autonomy. The present study utilized functional 
      near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to examine the effect of need satisfaction on 
      activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC), a key region in processing 
      information about the self. Participants completed a decision-making task (e.g., 
      Which occupation would you prefer, dancer or chemist?) in which they made a 
      series of forced choices according to their personal preferences. The degree of 
      decisional conflict (i.e., choice difficulty) between the available response 
      options was manipulated on the basis of participants' unique preference ratings 
      for the target stimuli, which were obtained prior to scanning. Need satisfaction 
      predicted elevated MPFC activity during high-conflict relative to low-conflict 
      situations, suggesting that one way need satisfaction may promote self-coherence 
      is by enhancing the utilization of self-knowledge in the resolution of decisional 
      conflicts.
CI  - PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved.
FAU - Di Domenico, Stefano I
AU  - Di Domenico SI
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7137-7364
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough.
FAU - Fournier, Marc A
AU  - Fournier MA
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough.
FAU - Ayaz, Hasan
AU  - Ayaz H
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5514-2741
AD  - School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, & Health Systems, Drexel University.
FAU - Ruocco, Anthony C
AU  - Ruocco AC
AD  - Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Scarborough.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20121015
PL  - United States
TA  - J Exp Psychol Gen
JT  - Journal of experimental psychology. General
JID - 7502587
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Conflict, Psychological
MH  - Decision Making/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Neuroimaging
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Personal Satisfaction
MH  - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiology
MH  - Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared
EDAT- 2012/10/17 06:00
MHDA- 2014/03/22 06:00
CRDT- 2012/10/17 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/10/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/03/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - 2012-27820-001 [pii]
AID - 10.1037/a0030257 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Exp Psychol Gen. 2013 Aug;142(3):967-978. doi: 10.1037/a0030257. Epub 2012 Oct 
      15.