The amygdala processes the emotional significance of facial expressions: An fMRI investigation using the interaction between expression and face direction

NeuroImage

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1006-1013

  Sato, Wataru ^a   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^a   Matsumura, Michikazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional facial expressions; Experienced emotion; Face direction; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL FIELD;

AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942613678     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.02.030     Document Type: Article

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