Amygdala activation during recognition of emotions in a foreign ethnic group is associated with duration of stay

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 294-307

  Derntl, Birgit ^a,b   Habel, Ute ^a,b   Robinson, Simon ^a,c   Windischberger, Christian ^a   Kryspin Exner, Ilse ^d   Gur, Ruben C ^e   Moser, Ewald ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alien effect; Amygdala; Culture; Emotions; Facial expressions; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMOTIONS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME;

EID: 68449090130     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910802571633     Document Type: Article

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