Distinct brain systems underlie the processing of valence and arousal of affective pictures

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 387-396

  Nielen, M M A ^a   Heslenfeld, D J ^b   Heinen, K ^c   Van Strien, J W ^d   Witter, M P ^e   Jonker, C ^f   Veltman, D J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f Institute for Clinical and Experimental Neurosciences ICEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arousal; Emotion; Event related fMRI; IAPS; Interaction; Neuroimaging; Valence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70350398928     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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