Economic games quantify diminished sense of guilt in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex.

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Published in J Neurosci on February 18, 2009

Authors

Ian Krajbich1, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Natalie L Denburg, Colin F Camerer

Author Affiliations

1: Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.

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