Are all beliefs equal? Implicit belief attributions recruiting core brain regions of theory of mind

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Kovács, Ágnes Melinda ^a   Kühn, Simone ^b   Gergely, György ^a   Csibra, Gergely ^a   Brass, Marcel ^c,d  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BELIEF; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEORY OF MIND; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THEORY OF MIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907908426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106558     Document Type: Article

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