Third-person self-talk facilitates emotion regulation without engaging cognitive control: Converging evidence from ERP and fMRI

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Moser, Jason S ^a   Dougherty, Adrienne ^b   Mattson, Whitney I ^b   Katz, Benjamin ^b   Moran, Tim P ^a,e   Guevarra, Darwin ^b   Shablack, Holly ^b   Ayduk, Ozlem ^c   Jonides, John ^b   Berman, Marc G ^d   Kross, Ethan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CASE REPORT; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; SELF CONTROL; STIMULUS; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SELF-CONTROL;

EID: 85021738026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04047-3     Document Type: Article

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