Neural correlates of processing valence and arousal in affective words

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 742-748

  Lewis, P A ^a,b   Critchley, H D ^b   Rotshtein, P ^c   Dolan, R J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arousal; Emotion; fMRI; Orbitofrontal cortex; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33846988610     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhk024     Document Type: Article

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