Neural activity associated with self, other, and object-based counterfactual thinking

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 12-26

  De Brigard, Felipe ^a,b   Nathan Spreng, R ^c   Mitchell, Jason P ^d,e   Schacter, Daniel L ^d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual thinking; Default mode network; Mental simulation; Other; Partial least squares; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERSONALITY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EPISODIC MEMORY; IMAGINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NERVE NET; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921293613     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.12.075     Document Type: Article

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