Consciousness of subjective time in the brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 51, 2010, Pages 22356-22359

  Nyberg, Lars ^a   Kim, Alice S N ^b   Habib, Reza ^c   Levine, Brian ^b   Tulving, Endel ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonoetic consciousness; Episodic memory; Imagined time; Intraparietal sulcus; Parietal lobule

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CHRONESTHESIA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 78650664668     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016823108     Document Type: Article

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