Spontaneous default mode network phase-locking moderates performance perceptions under stereotype threat

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 994-1002

  Forbes, Chad E ^a   Leitner, Jordan B ^a   Duran Jordan, Kelly ^a   Magerman, Adam B ^a   Schmader, Toni ^b   Allen, John J B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Default mode network; Performance monitoring; Social neuroscience; Spontaneous phase locking; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALPHA RHYTHM; CAUCASIAN; CINGULATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; THETA RHYTHM;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALPHA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SELF CONCEPT; STEREOTYPING; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84936947852     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu145     Document Type: Article

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