Differential brain activation to angry faces by elite warfighters: Neural processing evidence for enhanced threat detection

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Paulus, Martin P ^a,e   Simmons, Alan N ^a   Fitzpatrick, Summer N ^a   Potterat, Eric G ^d,e   van Orden, Karl F ^b,e   Bauman, James ^c,e   Swain, Judith L ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c United States Olympic Training Center   (United States)

^d Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific   (United States)

^e OptiBrain Consortium   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELITE WARFIGHTER; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MILITARY SERVICE; NAVY; NORMAL HUMAN; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOLDIER; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; ANGER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGY, MILITARY; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956301627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010096     Document Type: Article

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