Mind your left: Spatial bias in subcortical fear processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1782-1789

  Siman Tov, Tali ^a,b   Papo, David ^a   Gadoth, Natan ^c,d   Schonberg, Tom ^a   Mendelsohn, Avi ^a   Perry, Daniella ^a   Hendler, Talma ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

'CURRENT; ADULT FEMALES; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; LATERALIZATION; NEURAL MECHANISMS; RIGHT HANDED; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 67650450483     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21120     Document Type: Article

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