Unconscious relational inference recruits the hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6138-6148

  Henke, Katharina ^a   Reber, Thomas P ^a   Luechinger, Roger ^b   Boesiger, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELATIONAL INFERENCE; RESPONSE TIME; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84860351037     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5639-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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