The role of inferior frontal cortex in belief-bias reasoning: An rTMS study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2005-2008

  Tsujii, Takeo ^a   Masuda, Sayako ^a   Akiyama, Takekazu ^a   Watanabe, Shigeru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Belief bias effect; Inferior frontal cortex; RTMS; Syllogistic reasoning

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953023116     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.021     Document Type: Article

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