Different Neural Responses to Stranger and Personally Familiar Faces in Shy and Bold Adults

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 704-709

  Beaton, Elliott A ^a,b   Schmidt, Louis A ^a   Schulkin, Jay ^c,d   Antony, Martin M ^e,f   Swinson, Richard P ^a,f   Hall, Geoffrey B ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Brain Body Institute   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

amygdala; approach withdrawal; boldness; fMRI; shyness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 44649089927     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.122.3.704     Document Type: Article

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