Cerebral correlates of amygdala responses during non-conscious perception of facial affect in adolescent and pre-adolescent children

Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-43

  Killgore, William D Scott ^a   Yurgelun Todd, Deborah A ^b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Development; Face perception; FMRI; Limbic system; Masked affect; Neuroimaging; Nonconscious

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77957016779     PISSN: 17588928     EISSN: 17588936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17588920903243957     Document Type: Article

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