Self-esteem modulates medial prefrontal cortical responses to evaluative social feedback

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3005-3013

  Somerville, Leah H ^a   Kelley, William M ^a   Heatherton, Todd F ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

anterior cingulate cortex; fMRI; medial prefrontal cortex; self esteem; social

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78349240023     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq049     Document Type: Article

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