The Emergence and Representation of Knowledge about Social and Nonsocial Hierarchies

Neuron

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 653-666

  Kumaran, Dharshan ^a   Melo, Hans Ludwig ^a   Duzel, Emrah ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868671034     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.09.035     Document Type: Article

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