Dissociable effects of bottom-up and top-down factors on the processing of unattended fearful faces

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 3075-3086

  Hsu, Shen Mou ^a   Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Facial expressions; fMRI; Perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 34548481958     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.019     Document Type: Article

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