Eyes on me: An fMRI study of the effects of social gaze on action control

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 393-403

  Schilbach, Leonhard ^a   Eickhoff, Simon B ^b,c   Cieslik, Edna ^b,c   Shah, Nadim J ^b   Fink, Gereon R ^a   Vogeley, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action control; fMRI; Social gaze; Stimulus response compatibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961243050     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq067     Document Type: Article

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