Subjective mental time: The functional architecture of projecting the self to past and future

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2009-2017

  Arzy, Shahar ^a,b,c   Collette, Sven ^a   Ionta, Silvio ^a   Fornari, Eleonora ^d   Blanke, Olaf ^a,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Episodic thinking; Face; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human; Mental time; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; INSULA; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL CAPACITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70449722864     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06974.x     Document Type: Article

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