The Dorsomedial Prefrontal Cortex Plays a Causal Role in Integrating Social Impressions from Faces and Verbal Descriptions

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 156-165

  Ferrari, Chiara ^a,b   Lega, Carlotta ^c   Vernice, Mirta ^c   Tamietto, Marco ^d,e   Mende Siedlecki, Peter ^f   Vecchi, Tomaso ^a,b   Todorov, Alexander ^g   Cattaneo, Zaira ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dorsomedial prefrontal cortex; faces; impressions formation; inferior frontal gyrus; social inference; social traits; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; STEREOTYPING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84959862189     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu186     Document Type: Article

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