The functional connectivity between amygdala and extrastriate visual cortex activity during emotional picture processing depends on stimulus novelty

Biological Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 203-209

  Wendt, Julia ^a   Weike, Almut I ^a   Lotze, Martin ^a   Hamm, Alfons O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional modulation; Inferior temporal cortex; Novelty; Repetition; Significance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORPUS STRIATUM; COVARIANCE; EMOTIONALITY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952310803     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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