Neural correlates of belief- and desire-reasoning

Child Development

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1163-1171

  Liu, David ^a   Meltzoff, Andrew N ^b   Wellman, Henry M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650587124     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01323.x     Document Type: Article

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