A cardiac signature of emotionality

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3328-3338

  Koelsch, Stefan ^a,b   Remppis, Andrew ^c   Sammler, Daniela ^a   Jentschke, Sebastian ^a   Mietchen, Daniel ^a   Fritz, Thomas ^a   Bonnemeier, Hendrik ^d   Siebel, Walter A ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^e Conflict Research Center ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; fMRI; Hippocampus; HRV; Hyperathymia maxima; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 36249015319     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05889.x     Document Type: Article

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