Approaching the bad and avoiding the good: Lateral prefrontal cortical asymmetry distinguishes between action and valence

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1970-1979

  Berkman, Elliot T ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956361200     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21317     Document Type: Article

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