In the eye of the beholder: Internally driven uncertainty of danger recruits the amygdala and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2263-2275

  Zaretsky, Michal ^a,b   Mendelsohn, Avi ^a,b,c   Mintz, Matti ^a   Hendler, Talma ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY; VASCULARIZATION;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956945640     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21402     Document Type: Article

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