Neural correlates of belief-laden reasoning during premise processing: An event-related potential study

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-118

  Luo, Junlong ^a   Yang, Qun ^a   Du, Xiumin ^b   Zhang, Qinglin ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Belief laden reasoning; Event related potential; Logical training; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DENIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGIC; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGIC; MALE; THINKING;

EID: 78650652617     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000317846     Document Type: Article

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