Influence of attentional demands on the processing of emotional facial expressions in the amygdala

NeuroImage

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 357-366

  Silvert, Laetitia ^a   Lepsien, Jöran ^a   Fragopanagos, Nickolaos ^b   Goolsby, Brian ^c   Kiss, Monika ^d   Taylor, John G ^b   Raymond, Jane E ^c   Shapiro, Kimron L ^c   Eimer, Martin ^d   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attentional load; Emotion; Fear; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 34948817635     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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