The neural basis of semantic and episodic forms of self-knowledge: Insights from functional neuroimaging

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 739, Issue , 2012, Pages 276-290

  D'Argembeau, Arnaud ^a   Salmon, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROSCIENCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; AWARENESS; BRAIN; EGO; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

HOMINIDAE;

AWARENESS; BRAIN; EGO; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84859542689     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1704-0_18     Document Type: Article

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