Regional response differences across the human amygdaloid complex during social conditioning

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 612-621

  Davis, F Caroline ^a   Johnstone, Tom ^b   Mazzulla, Emily C ^c   Oler, Jonathan A ^d   Whalen, Paul J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Dorsal amygdala; FMRI; Habituation; Valence; Ventral amygdala

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL LEARNING; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749118446     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp126     Document Type: Article

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