Emotions in motion: Dynamic compared to static facial expressions of disgust and happiness reveal more widespread emotion-specific activations

Brain Research

Volumn 1284, Issue , 2009, Pages 100-115

  Trautmann, Sina Alexa ^a   Fehr, Thorsten ^a,b   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disgust; Dynamic facial expressions; Emotion; fMRI; Happiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTION; NERVE NET; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651120149     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.05.075     Document Type: Article

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