Fake or fantasy: Rapid dissociation between strategic content monitoring and reality filtering in human memory

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2589-2598

  Wahlen, Aurélie ^a   Nahum, Louis ^a   Gabriel, Damien ^a   Schnider, Armin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospitals   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

exclusion paradigm; extinction capacity; feeling of rightness; inverse solution; orbitofrontal cortex; reward processing; source monitoring; spatiotemporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053467914     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr049     Document Type: Article

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