Brain imaging investigation of the neural correlates of observing virtual social interactions

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 53, 2011, Pages

  Sung, Keen ^a   Dolcos, Sanda ^b   Florhenry, Sophie ^a   Zhou, Crystal ^a   Gasior, Claudia ^a   Argo, Jennifer ^a   Dolcos, Florin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision Making; Event Related fMRI; Issue 53; Neuroscience; Non Verbal Communication; Social Cognition Network; Social Knowledge; Social Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055113736     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/2379     Document Type: Article

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