Differential stimuli and task effects in the amygdala and sensory areas

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1391-1395

  Bleich Cohen, Maya ^a,b   Mintz, Matti ^a   Pianka, Pazit ^b   Andelman, Fani ^c   Rotshtein, Pia ^b,d   Hendler, Talma ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Wohl Institute for Advanced Imaging   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Lateral occipital complex; Superior temporal complex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33748061257     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000215772.68979.f4     Document Type: Article

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