Amygdala activation during masked presentation of emotional faces predicts conscious detection of threat-related faces

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 243-248

  Suslow, Thomas ^a   Ohrmann, Patricia ^a   Bauer, Jochen ^a   Rauch, Astrid Veronika ^a   Schwindt, Wolfram ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Heindel, Walter ^a   Kugel, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion recognition; Facial expression; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; VISUAL MASKING; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; CONSCIOUSNESS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 33745713980     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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