Tuning down the emotional brain: An fMRI study of the effects of cognitive load on the processing of affective images

NeuroImage

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1212-1219

  Van Dillen, Lotte F ^a,b   Heslenfeld, Dirk J ^a   Koole, Sander L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cognition; Dorsolateral frontal cortex; Emotion; IAPS; Insula; Interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 62049083419     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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