You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output.
Click here to find out more.
Mendeley readers
Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Hemispheric Asymmetries during Processing of Immoral Stimuli
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, January 2010
|
| DOI | 10.3389/fnevo.2010.00110 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lora M. Cope, Jana Schaich Borg, Carla L. Harenski, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Debra Lieberman, Prashanth K. Nyalakanti, Vince D. Calhoun, Kent A. Kiehl |
| Abstract |
Evolutionary approaches to dissecting our psychological architecture underscore the importance of both function and structure. Here we focus on both the function and structure of our neural circuitry and report a functional bilateral asymmetry associated with the processing of immoral stimuli. Many processes in the human brain are associated with functional specialization unique to one hemisphere. With respect to emotions, most research points to right-hemispheric lateralization. Here we provide evidence that not all emotional stimuli share right-hemispheric lateralization. Across three studies employing different paradigms, the processing of negative morally laden stimuli was found to be highly left-lateralized. Regions of engagement common to the three studies include the left medial prefrontal cortex, left temporoparietal junction, and left posterior cingulate. These data support the hypothesis that processing of immoral stimuli preferentially engages left hemispheric processes and sheds light on our evolved neural architecture. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 58 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Italy | 2 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 51 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 29% |
| Researcher | 9 | 16% |
| Professor | 5 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 21% |
| Unknown | 7 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 22 | 38% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 4 | 7% |
| Engineering | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 4 | 7% |
| Unknown | 8 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2011.
All research outputs
#3,250,704
of 22,659,164 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
#16
of 35 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,357
of 163,482 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,659,164 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 84th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 35 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.2. This one scored the same or higher as 19 of them.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 163,482 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.