The neuroscience of race

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 940-948

  Kubota, Jennifer T ^a   Banaji, Mahzarin R ^b   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; BRAIN REGION; CAUCASIAN; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ETHNICITY; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862856177     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3136     Document Type: Review

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