When seeing outweighs feeling: A role for prefrontal cortex in passive control of negative affect in blindsight

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3021-3031

  Anders, Silke ^a,b,c   Eippert, Falk ^a,d   Wiens, Stefan ^c   Birbaumer, Niels ^a   Lotze, Martin ^a,e   Wildgruber, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affective feeling; Emotion; Phenomenal experience; Startle reflex potentiation; Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STARTLE REFLEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 70350664242     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp212     Document Type: Article

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