The Busy Social Brain: Evidence for Automaticity and Control in the Neural Systems Supporting Social Cognition and Action Understanding

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 80-86

  Spunt, Robert P ^a   Lieberman, Matthew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attribution; neuroimaging; social cognition; social perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872345227     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612450884     Document Type: Article

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