Eyes wide shut: Amygdala mediates eyes-closed effect on emotional experience with music

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Lerner, Yulia ^a,b   Papo, David ^b   Zhdanov, Andrey ^b   Belozersky, Libi ^b   Hendler, Talma ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS; BLINKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC;

EID: 67650662416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006230     Document Type: Article

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