Personality from a controlled processing perspective: An fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousness

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-181

  Eisenberger, Naomi I ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a   Satpute, Ajay B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXTRAVERSION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 28244433729     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.5.2.169     Document Type: Article

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