Higher or lower? The functional anatomy of perceived allocentric social hierarchies

NeuroImage

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1552-1560

  Farrow, Tom F D ^a   Jones, Sarah C ^a   Kaylor Hughes, Catherine J ^a   Wilkinson, Iain D ^a   Woodruff, Peter W R ^a   Hunter, Michael D ^a   Spence, Sean A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dissocial personality; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Orbitofrontal cortex; Social alliance; Social hierarchy; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960264738     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.069     Document Type: Article

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