Sociocultural patterning of neural activity during self-reflection

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-80

  Ma, Yina ^a   Bang, Dan ^b   Wang, Chenbo ^a   Allen, Micah ^b   Frith, Chris ^b,c   Roepstorff, Andreas ^b   Han, Shihui ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; fMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Self; Temporoparietal junction

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

CULTURE; FMRI; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891354228     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss103     Document Type: Article

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