論文

査読有り 国際誌
2021年4月12日

Regional and Temporal Differences in Brain Activity With Morally Good or Bad Judgments in Men: A Magnetoencephalography Study

Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Hirotoshi Hiraishi
  • ,
  • Takashi Ikeda
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  • Daisuke N Saito
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  • Chiaki Hasegawa
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  • Sachiko Kitagawa
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  • Tetsuya Takahashi
  • ,
  • Mitsuru Kikuchi
  • ,
  • Yasuomi Ouchi

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開始ページ
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終了ページ
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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.3389/fnins.2021.596711

Many neuroimaging studies on morality focus on functional brain areas that relate to moral judgment specifically in morally negative situations. To date, there have been few studies on differences in brain activity under conditions of being morally good and bad along a continuum. To explore not only the brain regions involved but also their functional connections during moral judgments, we used magnetoencephalography (MEG), which is superior to other imaging modalities for analyzing time-dependent brain activities; only men were recruited because sex differences might be a confounding factor. While analyses showed that general patterns of brain activation and connectivity were similar between morally good judgments (MGJs) and morally bad judgments (MBJs), activation in brain areas that subserve emotion and "theory of mind" on the right hemisphere was larger in MGJ than MBJ conditions. In the left local temporal region, the connectivity between brain areas related to emotion and reward/punishment was stronger in MBJ than MGJ conditions. The time-frequency analysis showed distinct laterality (left hemisphere dominant) occurring during early moral information processing in MBJ conditions compared to MGJ conditions and phase-dependent differences in the appearance of theta waves between MBJ and MGJ conditions. During MBJs, connections within the hemispheric regions were more robust than those between hemispheric regions. These results suggested that the local temporal region on the left hemisphere is more important in the execution of MBJs during early moral valence processing than in that with MGJs. Shorter neuronal connections within the hemisphere may allow to make MBJs punctual.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.596711
PubMed
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33911998
PubMed Central
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072487
共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題
脳領域/個体/集団間のインタラクション創発原理の解明と適用
共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題
神経ダイナミクスから社会的相互作用に至る過程の理解と構築による構成的発達科学
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.3389/fnins.2021.596711
  • PubMed ID : 33911998
  • PubMed Central 記事ID : PMC8072487

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