Culture, gaze and the neural processing of fear expressions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 340-348

  Adams, Reginald B ^a   Franklin Jr , Robert G ^a   Rule, Nicholas O ^b   Freeman, Jonathan B ^b   Kveraga, Kestutis ^c   Hadjikhani, Nouchine ^c,d   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^e   Ambady, Nalini ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cross cultural psychology; Eye gaze; Face perception; Facial expression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954483230     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp047     Document Type: Article

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