Propensity and sensitivity measures of fear and disgust are differentially related to emotion-specific brain activation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 465, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-266

  Schäfer, Axel ^a   Leutgeb, Verena ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^b   Ebner, Franz ^b   Schienle, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disgust; Emotion; Fear; fMRI; Propensity; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 70349786393     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.09.030     Document Type: Article

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