The right-hemisphere and valence hypotheses: Could they both be right (and sometimes left)?

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-250

  Killgore, William D S ^a   Yurgelun Todd, Deborah A ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Emotion; Faces; FMRI; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AFFECT; BRAIN; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34548659119     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm020     Document Type: Article

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