Activation of the right inferior frontal cortex during assessment of facial emotion

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Correlating Behavioral Responses to fMRI Signals from Human Prefrontal Cortex: Examining Cognitive Processes Using Task Analysis
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Correlating Behavioral Responses to fMRI Signals from Human Prefrontal Cortex: Examining Cognitive Processes Using Task Analysis

Published on: June 20, 2012

K Nakamura1, R Kawashima, K Ito

  • 1Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Inuyama, 484-8506, Japan.

Journal of Neurophysiology
|September 14, 1999
PubMed

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