Detecting analogies unconsciously

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Reber, Thomas P ^a,c   Luechinger, Roger ^b   Boesiger, Peter ^b   Henke, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analogical mapping; Consciousness; Episodic memory; Flexibility; Hippocampus; Medial temporal lobe; Subliminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOLUNTEER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893000792     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00009     Document Type: Article

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