Brain Branding: When Neuroscience and Commerce Collide

AJOB Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 18-27

  Chancellor, Bree ^a   Chatterjee, Anjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

brain games; marketing; neuroethics; neuroimaging; neurotechnology; SPECT scan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859403567     PISSN: 21507740     EISSN: 21507759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2011.611123     Document Type: Article

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