When I think about me and simulate you: Medial rostral prefrontal cortex and self-referential processes

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1340-1349

  Benoit, Roland G ^a,b   Gilbert, Sam J ^a   Volle, Emmanuelle ^a   Burgess, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; FRIENDSHIP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THINKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FRIENDS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249171158     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.091     Document Type: Article

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