Reflections of oneself: Neurocognitive evidence for dissociable forms of self-referential recollection

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2648-2657

  Bergström, Zara M ^a,b,c   Vogelsang, David A ^a,b   Benoit, Roland G ^d   Simons, Jon S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic retrieval; FMRI; Medial PFC; Self; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84966634923     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu063     Document Type: Article

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