The medial prefrontal cortex mediates social event knowledge

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 103-109

  Krueger, Frank ^a   Barbey, Aron K ^a   Grafman, Jordan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBRAL CORTICES; NEURAL SYSTEMS; PRE-FRONTAL CORTICES; SOCIAL EVENTS; TEMPORAL REPRESENTATIONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 60849116425     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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