Amygdala integrates emotional expression and gaze direction in response to dynamic facial expressions

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1658-1665

  Sato, Wataru ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^b   Uono, Shota ^a   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Dynamic facial expressions; Experienced arousal; fMRI; Gaze direction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANGER; EMOTIONS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950593660     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.049     Document Type: Article

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