You, Me, and My Brain: Self and Other Representations in Social Cognitive Neuroscience

Social Neuroscience: Toward Understanding the Underpinnings of the Social Mind

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zaki, Jamil ^a   Ochsner, Kevin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuroimaging studies; Perception; Selfperception; Social cognition; Social cognitive neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920596512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195316872.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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