When vocal processing gets emotional: On the role of social orientation in relevance detection by the human amygdala

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1402-1410

  Schirmer, Annett ^a   Escoffier, Nicolas ^a   Zysset, Stefan ^b   Koester, Dirk ^c   Striano, Tricia ^d   Friederici, Angela D ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective; Collectivism; Deviance detection; Mismatch negativity; Prosody; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VOICE;

EID: 40849099939     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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