Beyond threat: Amygdala reactivity across multiple expressions of facial affect

NeuroImage

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1441-1448

  Fitzgerald, Daniel A ^a   Angstadt, Mike ^a   Jelsone, Laura M ^b   Nathan, Pradeep J ^c   Phan, K Luan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Faces; Fear; fMRI; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALA; ANGER; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OXYGEN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748146493     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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