Task-invariant brain responses to the social value of faces

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2766-2781

  Todorov, Alexander ^a   Said, Christopher P ^b   Oosterhof, Nikolaas N ^c   Engell, Andrew D ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860389628     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21616     Document Type: Article

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