The inversion effect for neutral and emotional facial expressions on amygdala activity

Brain Research

Volumn 1378, Issue , 2011, Pages 84-90

  Sato, Wataru ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^b   Yoshikawa, Sakiko ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional facial expressions; Face; Fear; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951954343     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.12.082     Document Type: Article

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