Amygdala Responses to Fearful and Happy Facial Expressions under Conditions of Binocular Suppression

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2898-2904

  Williams, Mark A ^a   Morris, Adam P ^a   McGlone, Francis ^b   Abbott, David F ^c   Mattingley, Jason B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Binocular rivalry; Emotion; Faces; fMRI; Unconscious perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SENSORY STIMULATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 1642423949     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4977-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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