The role of the dorsal anterior cingulate in evaluating behavior for achieving gains and avoiding losses

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2328-2342

  Magno, Elena ^a,b   Simões Franklin, Cristina ^b   Robertson, Ian H ^b   Garavan, Hugh ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350435429     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.21169     Document Type: Article

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