The Emerging Neuroscience of Social Media

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 771-782

  Meshi, Dar ^a   Tamir, Diana I ^b   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Neuroscience; Self referential cognition; Social cognition; Social media; Social reward

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEUROLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

FACEBOOK; NEUROSCIENCE; SELF-REFERENTIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL REWARD;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

HUMAN; INTERNET; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROSCIENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL MEDIA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROSCIENCES; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84949035757     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.09.004     Document Type: Review

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