Medial prefrontal activity predicts memory for self

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 647-654

  Macrae, C Neil ^a   Moran, Joseph M ^a   Heatherton, Todd F ^a   Banfield, Jane F ^a   Kelley, William M ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Memory; Self; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EGO; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

EID: 2442717771     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh025     Document Type: Article

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