The world according to me: Personal relevance and the medial prefrontal cortex

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Abraham, Anna ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Reality fiction distinction; Self relevance; Self referential thinking; Spontaneous cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; PERSONAL RELEVANCE; PERSONALITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING;

EID: 84887520561     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00341     Document Type: Article

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