Unattended emotional faces elicit early lateralized amygdala-frontal and fusiform activations

NeuroImage

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 727-733

  Hung, Yuwen ^a,c   Smith, Mary Lou ^b,c   Bayle, Dimitri J ^a,d   Mills, Travis ^a   Cheyne, Douglas ^b   Taylor, Margot J ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTIONALITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL FIELD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77952312704     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.093     Document Type: Article

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