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

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1610-1614

  Nakamura, Katsuki ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^b   Ito, Kengo ^c   Sugiura, Motoaki ^b   Kato, Takashi ^c   Nakamura, Akinori ^c   Hatano, Kentaro ^c   Nagumo, Sumiharu ^a   Kubota, Kisou ^d   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Kojima, Shozo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0032842498     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.3.1610     Document Type: Article

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