Neural correlates of the 'Aha! reaction'

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2013-2017

  Luo, Jing ^a,c   Niki, Kazuhisa ^b,c   Phillips, Steven ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aha! reaction; Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC); Event related fMRI; Left lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REFLEX; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME;

EID: 4644303807     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200409150-00004     Document Type: Article

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