Emotion triggers executive attention: Anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala responses to emotional words in a conflict task

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 198-208

  Kanske, Philipp ^a,b   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Anterior cingulate cortex; Control; Flanker task; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFLICT; CORTICAL AMYGDALA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651444437     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21012     Document Type: Article

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