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Leigh E. Nystrom
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 43
Citations - 22610
Leigh E. Nystrom is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Functional magnetic resonance imaging & Prefrontal cortex. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 43 publications receiving 21259 citations. Previous affiliations of Leigh E. Nystrom include University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University.
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An fMRI Investigation of Emotional Engagement in Moral Judgment
Joshua D. Greene,R. Brian Sommerville,Leigh E. Nystrom,John M. Darley,Jonathan D. Cohen,Jonathan D. Cohen +5 more
TL;DR: It is argued that moral dilemmas vary systematically in the extent to which they engage emotional processing and that these variations in emotional engagement influence moral judgment.
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The neural basis of economic decision-making in the Ultimatum Game.
Alan G. Sanfey,James K. Rilling,Jessica A. Aronson,Leigh E. Nystrom,Jonathan D. Cohen,Jonathan D. Cohen +5 more
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of Ultimatum Game players was used to investigate neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes involved in economic decision-making and significantly heightened activity in anterior insula for rejected unfair offers suggests an important role for emotions in decision- making.
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The neural bases of cognitive conflict and control in moral judgment.
TL;DR: The present results indicate that brain regions associated with abstract reasoning and cognitive control are recruited to resolve difficult personal moral dilemmas in which utilitarian values require "personal" moral violations, violations that have previously been associated with increased activity in emotion-related brain regions.
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Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex
Matthew Botvinick,Leigh E. Nystrom,Kate Fissell,Cameron S. Carter,Jonathan D. Cohen,Jonathan D. Cohen +5 more
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure brain activation during performance of a task where, for a particular subset of trials, the strength of selection-for-action is inversely related to the degree of response conflict, providing evidence in favour of the conflict-monitoring account of ACC function.
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Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task
Jonathan D. Cohen,Jonathan D. Cohen,William M. Perlstein,Todd S. Braver,Leigh E. Nystrom,Douglas C. Noll,John Jonides,Edward E. Smith +7 more
TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to examine brain activation in human subjects during performance of a working memory task and to show that prefrontal cortex along with parietal cortex appears to play a role in active maintenance.