Shaped by the past: The default mode network supports cognition that is independent of immediate perceptual input

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Konishi, Mahiko ^a   McLaren, Donald George ^b   Engen, Haakon ^c   Smallwood, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INTROSPECTION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL CAPACITY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; THINKING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938705166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132209     Document Type: Article

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