Reality = Relevance? Insights from spontaneous modulations of the brain's default network when telling apart reality from fiction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Abraham, Anna ^a,b   von Cramon, D Yves ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANTASY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FRIEND; HIPPOCAMPUS; LITERATURE; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC FIGURE; REACTION TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; LITERATURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REALITY TESTING; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62849097448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004741     Document Type: Article

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