Fear-enhanced visual search persists after amygdala lesions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3430-3435

  Piech, Richard M ^a   McHugo, Maureen ^a   Smith, Stephen D ^b   Dukic, Mildred S ^a   Van Der Meer, Joost ^a   Abou Khalil, Bassel ^a   Zald, David H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala lesions; Attention; Emotion; Human amygdala; Visual search

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957324649     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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