Differential neural responses to overt and covert presentations of facial expressions of fear and disgust

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1484-1496

  Phillips, Mary L ^a   Williams, Leanne M ^b   Heining, Maike ^a   Herba, Catherine M ^a   Russell, Tamara ^a   Andrew, Christopher ^a   Bullmore, Ed T ^c   Brammer, Michael J ^a   Williams, Steven C R ^a   Morgan, Michael ^d   Young, Andrew W ^e   Gray, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion perception; Facial expression; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; DISSOCIATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; INSULA; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL MASKING;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 11144356430     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.12.013     Document Type: Article

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