Age-related differences in brain activity underlying identification of emotional expressions in faces

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 292-302

  Keightley, Michelle L ^a   Chiew, Kimberly S ^a   Winocur, Gordon ^a,b   Grady, Cheryl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Faces; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; COGNITION; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 36549089616     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm024     Document Type: Article

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