Impacts of facial identity and type of emotion on responses of amygdala neurons

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-12

  Kuraoka, Koji ^a,b,c   Nakamura, Katsuki ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Facial identity; Monkey; Neuron

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTION; FACIES; FEMALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 29344445650     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000194383.02999.c5     Document Type: Article

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