Affective learning enhances activity and functional connectivity in early visual cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2480-2487

  Damaraju, Eswar ^a   Huang, Yang Ming ^a   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^b   Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Emotion; Faces; fMRI; Primary visual cortex; Vision

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; FACE; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650070256     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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