Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Kühn, Simone ^a   Fernyhough, Charles ^b   Alderson Day, Benjamin ^b   Hurlburt, Russell T ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Descriptive experience sampling; fMRI; Inner experience; Inner hearing; Inner speaking; Inner speech; Introspection; Mind wandering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923375768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393     Document Type: Article

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