Implicit false-belief processing in the human brain

NeuroImage

Volumn 101, Issue , 2014, Pages 268-275

  Schneider, Dana ^a,b   Slaughter, Virginia P ^a   Becker, Stefanie I ^a   Dux, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; FMRI; Implicit theory of mind; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLICIT THEORY OF MIND; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPLICIT FALSE BELIEF PROCESSING; IMPLICIT THEORY OF MIND; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL PARIETAL JUNCTION; THEORY OF MIND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOGRAPHY; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904916980     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.014     Document Type: Article

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