PMID- 25552567
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160226
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1749-5024 (Electronic)
IS  - 1749-5016 (Print)
IS  - 1749-5016 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 8
DP  - 2015 Aug
TI  - Medial prefrontal cortex reacts to unfairness if this damages the self: a tDCS 
      study.
PG  - 1054-60
LID - 10.1093/scan/nsu154 [doi]
AB  - Neural correlates of unfairness perception depend on who is the target of the 
      unfair treatment. These previous findings suggest that the activation of medial 
      prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is related to unfairness perception only when the 
      subject of the measurement is also the person affected by the unfair treatment. 
      We aim at demonstrating the specificity of MPFC involvement using transcranial 
      direct current stimulation (tDCS), a technique that induces cortical excitability 
      changes in the targeted region. We use a modified version of the Ultimatum Game, 
      in which responders play both for themselves (myself-MS condition) and on behalf 
      of an unknown third-party (TP condition), where they respond to unfairness 
      without being the target of it. We find that the application of cathodal tDCS 
      over MPFC decreases the probability of rejecting unfair offers in MS, but not in 
      TP; conversely, the same stimulation increases the probability of rejecting fair 
      offers in TP, but not in MS. We confirm the hypothesis that MPFC is specifically 
      related to processing unfairness when the self is involved, and discuss possible 
      explanations for the opposite effect of the stimulation in TP.
CI  - (c) The Author (2014). Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, 
      please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.
FAU - Civai, Claudia
AU  - Civai C
AD  - Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, 
      Nijmegen, The Netherlands c.civai@donders.ru.nl.
FAU - Miniussi, Carlo
AU  - Miniussi C
AD  - Neuroscience Section, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, 
      University of Brescia, Italy Cognitive Neuroscience Section, IRCCS Centro San 
      Giovanni di Dio Fatebenefratelli, Brescia Italy, and.
FAU - Rumiati, Raffaella I
AU  - Rumiati RI
AD  - Neuroscience Area, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20141230
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
JT  - Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
JID - 101288795
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Ego
MH  - Electrodes
MH  - Female
MH  - Games, Experimental
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Morals
MH  - Prefrontal Cortex/*physiology
MH  - Psychomotor Performance/physiology
MH  - *Social Perception
MH  - *Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC4526475
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - MPFC
OT  - Ultimatum Game
OT  - non-invasive brain stimulation
OT  - self-other
OT  - unfairness
EDAT- 2015/01/02 06:00
MHDA- 2016/02/27 06:00
PMCR- 2016/08/01
CRDT- 2015/01/02 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/12/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/01/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/02/27 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - nsu154 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/scan/nsu154 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2015 Aug;10(8):1054-60. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsu154. Epub 
      2014 Dec 30.