Social cognition and the anterior temporal lobes

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3452-3462

  Ross, Lars A ^a   Olson, Ingrid R ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Semantic memory; Social cognition; Temporal pole; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL COGNITION; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 73749084380     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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