Tracking the Unconscious Generation of Free Decisions Using Uitra-High Field fMRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bode, Stefan ^a,b,c   He, Anna Hanxi ^a,d   Soon, Chun Siong ^a,e,f   Trampel, Robert ^a   Turner, Robert ^a   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,e,g  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^g HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTOPOLAR CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; THINKING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BEHAVIOR; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959583592     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021612     Document Type: Article

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