Neural substrates of sarcasm: A functional magnetic-resonance imaging study

Brain Research

Volumn 1124, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-110

  Uchiyama, Hitoshi ^a   Seki, Ayumi ^b   Kageyama, Hiroko ^b   Saito, Daisuke N ^c   Koeda, Tatsuya ^d   Ohno, Kousaku ^b   Sadato, Norihiro ^c,e,f  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Japanese; Mentalizing; Reading; Sarcasm; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SARCASM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN;

EID: 33751193453     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.09.088     Document Type: Article

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