The need for a cognitive neuroscience of naturalistic social cognition

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1167, Issue , 2009, Pages 16-30

  Zaki, Jamil ^a   Ochsner, Kevin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Empathy; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mirror neurons; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LABORATORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; THEORY;

EID: 67649644474     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04601.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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