Brain regions for perceiving and reasoning about other people in school-aged children

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1197-1209

  Saxe, Rebecca R ^a   Whitfield Gabrieli, Susan ^a   Scholz, Jonathan ^a   Pelphrey, Kevin A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

BRAIN; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 67650400350     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01325.x     Document Type: Article

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