Increased amygdala activation to averted versus direct gaze in humans is independent of valence of facial expression

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2680-2686

  Straube, Thomas ^a   Langohr, Bernd ^a   Schmidt, Stephanie ^a   Mentzel, Hans Joachim ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Eyes; fMRI; Gaze; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 71849114327     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.10.074     Document Type: Article

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