Naive realism in public perceptions of neuroimages

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Keehner, Madeleine ^a   Fischer, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEUROIMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; COMMUNICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NEUROSCIENCES; PUBLIC OPINION;

EID: 78751643646     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2773-c1     Document Type: Letter

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