Differential contributions of hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex to self-projection and self-referential processing

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 116-126

  Kurczek, Jake ^a,f   Wechsler, Emily ^b,g   Ahuja, Shreya ^b,h   Jensen, Unni ^c   Cohen, Neal J ^d   Tranel, Daniel ^a,e   Duff, Melissa ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Hockaday School   (United States)

^c Thomson Reuters   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^h DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; MPFC; Self projection; Self referential processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; RECALL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF PROJECTION; SELF REFERENTIAL PROCESSING; AGED; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING;

AGED; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING;

EID: 84929611057     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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