The neural basis of love as a subliminal prime: An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1218-1230

  Ortigue, S ^a,b   Bianchi Demicheli, F ^c   Hamilton, A F D C ^a   Grafton, Scott T ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRIEND; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MOTIVATION; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOVE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS;

EID: 34347390839     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2007.19.7.1218     Document Type: Article

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