The neural basis of personal goal processing when envisioning future events

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1701-1713

  D'Argembeau, Arnaud ^a,b   Stawarczyk, David ^a   Majerus, Steve ^a,b   Collette, Fabienne ^a,b   Van Der Linden, Martial ^a,c   Feyers, Dorothée ^a   Maquet, Pierre ^a,b   Salmon, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Fund for Scientific Research (FRS FNRS)   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUTUROLOGY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; KNOWLEDGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FORECASTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GOALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955309048     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21314     Document Type: Article

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