Processing social aspects of human gaze: A combined fMRI-DTI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 411-419

  Ethofer, Thomas ^a,b   Gschwind, Markus ^a   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior insula; Connectivity; DTI; fMRI; Gaze; STS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; GESTURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78951495252     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.033     Document Type: Article

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