Neural correlates of maintaining one's political beliefs in the face of counterevidence

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kaplan, Jonas T ^a   Gimbel, Sarah I ^a   Harris, Sam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Project Reason Los Angeles   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALA; BOLD SIGNAL; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; NEUROIMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; POLITICS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85007140446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep39589     Document Type: Article

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