Functional roles and cultural modulations of the medial prefrontal and parietal activity associated with causal attribution

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-91

  Han, Shihui ^a   Mao, Lihua ^a   Qin, Jungang ^a   Friederici, Angela D ^b   Ge, Jianqiao ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Causal attribution; Culture; FMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL BONE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650207549     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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