Cognitive control and unusual decisions about beauty: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Flexas, Albert ^a   Rosselló, Jaume ^a   de Miguel, Pedro ^b   Nadal, Marcos ^c   Munar, Enric ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA INTERDISCIPLINAR Y SISTEMAS COMPLEJOS IFISC CSIC UIB   (Spain)

^b Clinica Rotger   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Art; Conflict monitoring; Esthetic appreciation; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Reaction time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84904669340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00520     Document Type: Article

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