Dissociating affective evaluation and social cognitive processes in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-346

  Van Den Bos, Wouter ^a,b,d   McClure, Samuel M ^b   Harris, Lasana T ^b   Fiske, Susan T ^b   Cohen, Jonathan D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AFFECT; COGNITION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 37549071897     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/CABN.7.4.337     Document Type: Article

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