Emotion and cognition and the amygdala: From "what is it?" to "what's to be done?"

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3416-3429

  Pessoa, Luiz ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Amygdala; Attention; Decision making; Emotion; Value

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 77957320940     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.06.038     Document Type: Article

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