Attentional control of the processing of neutral and emotional stimuli

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-45

  Pessoa, Luiz ^a   Kastner, Sabine ^b   Ungerleider, Leslie G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Emotion; Executive function; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; META-ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036889993     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00214-8     Document Type: Article

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