Transient and sustained neural responses to death-related linguistic cues

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 573-578

  Shi, Zhenhao ^a   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Death related thought; fMRI; Frontoparietal cortex; Insula

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; DEATH; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN PARIETOFRONTAL CORTEX; DEATH-RELATED THOUGHT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INSULA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; DEATH; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANXIETY; DEATH-RELATED THOUGHT; FMRI; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; INSULA;

EID: 84879510258     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss034     Document Type: Article

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