Evidence for a general face salience signal in human amygdala

NeuroImage

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 3111-3116

  Santos, Andreia ^a   Mier, Daniela ^a   Kirsch, Peter ^a   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Salience; Threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ART; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650960680     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.024     Document Type: Article

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