Neural bases of behavior selection without an objective correct answer

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 459, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-34

  Nakao, Takashi ^a,b   Osumi, Takahiro ^a,b   Ohira, Hideki ^b   Kasuya, Yukinori ^c   Shinoda, Jun ^c   Yamada, Jitsuhiro ^c  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Kizawa Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior regulation; Conflict; Decision making; fMRI; Self knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65749090609     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.056     Document Type: Article

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