Neural correlates of social perception: The posterior superior temporal sulcus is modulated by action rationality, but not animacy

Building Bridges Across Cognitive Sciences Around the World - Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 276-281

  Deen, Ben ^a   Saxe, Rebecca R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; social perception; superior temporal sulcus

Indexed keywords

ANIMACY; FMRI; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; GOAL-DIRECTEDNESS; NEURAL CORRELATE; PERCEPTUAL INFORMATION; RECENT RESEARCHES; SIMPLE++; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84903206406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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