Brain Mechanisms of Social Threat Effects on Working Memory
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Brain Mechanisms of Social Threat Effects on Working Memory.
Social threat can have adverse effects on cognitive performance, but the brain mechanisms underlying its effects are poorly understood. We investigated the effects of social evaluative threat on working memory (WM), a core component of many important cognitive capabilities. Social threat impaired WM performance during an N-back task and produced widespread reductions in activation in lateral pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cerebral Cortex
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1047-3211,1460-2199
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu206