Brain mechanisms associated with internally directed attention and self-generated thought

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Beaty, Roger E ^b   Fink, Andreas ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUNEUS; DORSAL ATTENTION NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; IMAGINATION; LINGUAL GYRUS; MASKING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE;

EID: 84961218570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep22959     Document Type: Article

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