Increased amygdala activation to neutral faces is associated with better face memory performance

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 987-991

  Kleinhans, Natalia M ^a   Johnson, Leonard C ^b   Mahurin, Roderick ^a   Richards, Todd ^a   Stegbauer, Keith C ^a   Greenson, Jessica ^b   Dawson, Geraldine ^b   Aylward, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional memory; Face memory; Face processing; Functional MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34250205613     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328165d189     Document Type: Article

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