Neural basis of spontaneous thought processes

Cortex

Volumn 40, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 623-630

  Christoff, Kalina ^a,c   Ream, Justin M ^b   Gabrieli, John D E ^b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

fMRI; Higher cognition; Neuroimaging; Reasoning; Spontaneous thought; Stimulus independent thought; Thinking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 4644262003     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70158-8     Document Type: Article

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