Look at this: The neural correlates of initiating and responding to bids for joint attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE 2012, 2012, Pages

  Redcay, Elizabeth ^a   Kleiner, Mario ^b   Saxe, Rebecca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal medial prefrontal cortex; Face to face; fMRI; Social cognition; Social interaction; Superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DORSAL MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INITIATING JOINT ATTENTION; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONDING TO JOINT ATTENTION; RIGHT POSTERIOR SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOLO ATTENTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 84864199528     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00169     Document Type: Article

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