Emotional arousal and activation of the visual cortex: An fMRI analysis

Psychophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-210

  Lang, Peter J ^a   Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey R ^a   Cuthbert, Bruch N ^a   Scott, James D ^a   Moulder, Bradley ^a   Nangia, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Attention; Emotion; FMRI; Pictures; Pleasure

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0031939408     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577298001991     Document Type: Article

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