Neural correlates of wishful thinking

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 991-1000

  Aue, Tatjana ^a   Nusbaum, Howard C ^b   Cacioppo, John T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive bias; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Psychophysiological interaction; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; THINKING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870174434     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsr081     Document Type: Article

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