Temporal pole activity during perception of sad faces, but not happy faces, correlates with neuroticism trait

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-48

  Jimura, Koji ^a   Konishi, Seiki ^a   Miyashita, Yasushi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; fMRI; Individual difference; Personality; Temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60949092494     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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