Neural mechanisms of observational learning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 32, 2010, Pages 14431-14436

  Burke, Christopher J ^a,b   Tobler, Philippe N ^a   Baddeley, Michelle ^a   Schultz, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Empirical Research in Economics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Prediction error; Reward; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex; Vicarious learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ERROR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL ACTION PREDICTION ERROR; OBSERVATIONAL LEARNING; OBSERVATIONAL OUTCOME PREDICTION ERROR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956277222     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003111107     Document Type: Article

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