Levels of conflict in reasoning modulate right lateral prefrontal cortex

Brain Research

Volumn 1428, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-32

  Stollstorff, Melanie ^a,b   Vartanian, Oshin ^a,c   Goel, Vinod ^a,d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Belief bias; Conflict; fMRI; Logic; Prefrontal cortex; Transitive inference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGIC; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THINKING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855866567     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.05.045     Document Type: Article

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