Enhanced processing of threat stimuli under limited attentional resources

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-133

  De Martino, Benedetto ^a,d   Kalisch, Raffael ^b   Rees, Geraint ^c   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Attentional blink; Emotion; fMRI; Fusiform face area; rACC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTIONALITY; FACE; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEAR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 57749209671     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn062     Document Type: Article

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