Social interaction modifies neural response to gaze shifts

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 52-61

  Bristow, Davina ^a   Rees, Geraint ^a,b   Frith, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Gaze; Social

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34447649229     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsl036     Document Type: Article

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