Difficulty identifying feelings and automatic activation in the fusiform gyrus in response to facial emotion

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 915-922

  Eichmann, Mischa ^a   Kugel, Harald ^b   Suslow, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AUTOMATISM; BRAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 59149094834     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.107.3.915-922     Document Type: Article

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