Medial orbitofrontal cortex is associated with shifting decision thresholds in self-serving cognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 889-898

  Hughes, Brent L ^a   Beer, Jennifer S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; FMRI; Motivation; Self regulation; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861329123     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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