Neural correlates of depth of strategic reasoning in medial prefrontal cortex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 9163-9168

  Coricelli, Giorgio ^a,b   Nagel, Rosemarie ^c  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bounded rationality; Cognitive hierarchies; Game theory; Neuronimaging; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATEGIC REASONING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THINKING;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 67249152825     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807721106     Document Type: Article

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