Neural response to emotional faces with and without awareness: Event-related fMRI in a parietal patient with visual extinction and spatial neglect

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2156-2166

  Vuilleumier, P ^a   Armony, J L ^a,b   Clarke, K ^a   Husain, M ^a,c   Driver, J ^a   Dolan, R J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Awareness; Emotion; Faces; Visual extinction; Visual neglect

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN REGION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; AMYGDALA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTIONS; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036384050     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00045-3     Document Type: Article

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