Self-recognition and the right prefrontal cortex

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 338-344

  Keenan, Julian Paul ^a,c   Wheeler, Mark A ^a   Gallup Jr , Gordon G ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMPANZEE; COMPUTER; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034282746     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01521-7     Document Type: Review

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