Medial prefrontal cortex: Adding value to imagined scenarios

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1957-1967

  Lin, Wen Jing ^a   Horner, Aidan J ^a   Bisby, James A ^a   Burgess, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; IMAGINED SCENARIO; INSULA; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; BRAIN; EPISODIC MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MOTIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940829431     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00836     Document Type: Article

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