Frontal lobe networks for effective processing of ambiguously expressed emotions in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 348, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-116

  Nomura, Michio ^a   Iidaka, Tetsuya ^a   Kakehi, Kazuhiko ^a   Tsukiura, Takashi ^b   Hasegawa, Takehiro ^c   Maeda, Yasuhiro ^c   Matsue, Yoshihiko ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ambiguous stimuli; Anterior cingulate gyrus; Facial expression; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Inferior frontal gyrus; Medial frontal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

EID: 0042197130     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00768-7     Document Type: Article

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