Temporo-parietal junction activity in theory-of-mind tasks: Falseness, beliefs, or attention

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1179-1192

  Aichhorn, Markus ^a   Perner, Josef ^a   Weiss, Benjamin ^a   Kronbichler, Martin ^a,b   Staffen, Wolfgang ^b   Ladurner, Gunther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CULTURE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PEROXIDES; REALITY TESTING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; UREA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66049094735     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21082     Document Type: Article

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