Deconstructing events: The neural bases for space, time, and causality

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-16

  Kranjec, Alexander ^a,b   Cardillo, Eileen R ^b   Schmidt, Gwenda L ^b,c   Lehet, Matthew ^b   Chatterjee, Anjan ^b  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL GYRUS; THINKING; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUSALITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81455136864     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00124     Document Type: Article

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