"Brain is to thought as stomach is to??": Investigating the role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex in relational reasoning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 682-693

  Wendelken, Carter ^a,b,c   Nakhabenko, Denis ^a   Donohue, Sarah E ^a   Carter, Cameron S ^a   Bunge, Silvia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 41649087838     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20055     Document Type: Article

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