Self processing in the brain: A paradigmatic fMRI case study with a professional singer

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 104-108

  Zaytseva, Yuliya ^a,b   Gutyrchik, Evgeny ^a,b   Bao, Yan ^a,b,c   Pöppel, Ernst ^a,b,c,d   Han, Shihui ^a,c   Northoff, Georg ^e   Welker, Lorenz ^a   Meindl, Thomas ^a   Blautzik, Janusch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Parmenides Center for Art and Science ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical midline structures; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Professional identity; Self referential processing; Self related processing; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SINGING; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL GYRUS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SELF CONCEPT; SINGING;

EID: 84922015265     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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