Nonpolitical images evoke neural predictors of political ideology

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2693-2699

  Ahn, Woo Young ^a,b   Kishida, Kenneth T ^a,b   Gu, Xiaosi ^b,c   Lohrenz, Terry ^a,b   Harvey, Ann ^a,b   Alford, John R ^d   Smith, Kevin B ^e   Yaffe, Gideon ^f   Hibbing, John R ^e   Dayan, Peter ^g   Montague, P Read ^a,b,c  

^a VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLITICS;

EID: 84923218227     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.050     Document Type: Article

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