Neurocognitive processes of linguistic cues related to death

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3436-3442

  Han, Shihui ^a   Qin, Jungang ^a   Ma, Yina ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Death; FMRI; Insula; Self; Stroop task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEATH; EMOTIONALITY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DEATH; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957319469     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.026     Document Type: Article

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