The pervasive nature of unconscious social information processing in executive control

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL 2012, 2012, Pages

  Prabhakaran, Ranjani ^a   Gray, Jeremy R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral mimicry; Executive control; Impression management; Prefrontal cortex; Self regulation; Social power; Social priming; Visual masked priming paradigm

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MASKING;

EID: 84933670580     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00105     Document Type: Review

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