Reflective self-awareness and conscious states: PET evidence for a common midline parietofrontal core

NeuroImage

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1080-1086

  Kjaer, Troels W ^a   Nowak, Markus ^b   Lou, Hans C ^a  

^a JOHN F KENNEDY INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036423906     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(02)91230-9     Document Type: Article

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