Playing nice: A multi-methodological study on the effects of social conformity on memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Deuker, Lorena ^a   Müller, Anna R ^a   Montag, Christian ^a   Markett, Sebastian ^a   Reuter, Martin ^a   Fell, Juergen ^a   Trautner, Peter ^b   Axmache, Nikolai ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Life and Brain Center   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Catechol O methyl transferase (COMT); fMRI; Hippocampus; Recognition memory; Social conformity

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORISM; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84933674128     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00079     Document Type: Article

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