Brain imaging of the self - Conceptual, anatomical and methodological issues

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-63

  Northoff, Georg ^a   Qin, Pengmin ^a   Feinberg, Todd E ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Yarmon Neurobehavior Center   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain image; Cortical midline structures; The self

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; METHODOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EGO; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952101688     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.09.011     Document Type: Article

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