The link between social cognition and self-referential thought in the medial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1306-1315

  Mitchell, Jason P ^a,b,c   Banaji, Mahzarin R ^a   Macrae, C Neil ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 23944451550     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929055002418     Document Type: Article

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