Medial prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortical thickness predicts shared individual differences in self-generated thought and temporal discounting

NeuroImage

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages 290-297

  Bernhardt, Boris C ^a   Smallwood, Jonathan ^a,b   Tusche, Anita ^a   Ruby, Florence J M ^a,b   Engen, Haakon G ^a   Steinbeis, Nikolaus ^a   Singer, Tania ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893564796     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.040     Document Type: Article

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