Reputation and money: New insights into how the brain processes ...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 04/22/2008 - 23:00

(Cell Press) Researchers have mapped the brain regions that process social standing and money rewards, yielding new insights that they said will aid understanding of the basis of social behaviors.

They published their findings in two papers in the April 24, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron.


 

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