Dissociable neural systems supporting knowledge about human character and appearance in ourselves and others

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2222-2230

  Moran, Joseph M ^a   Lee, Su Mei ^a   Gabrieli, John D E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHARACTER; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHARACTER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960113931     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21580     Document Type: Article

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