Social cognitive conflict resolution: Contributions of domain-general and domain-specific neural systems

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 8481-8488

  Zaki, Jamil ^a   Hennigan, Kelly ^b   Weber, Jochen ^a   Ochsner, Kevin N ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77954107431     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0382-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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