Neural circuitry of emotional and cognitive conflict revealed through facial expressions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Chiew, Kimberly S ^a   Braver, Todd S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; CINGULATE GYRUS; EMOTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

INTRACISTERNAL A-PARTICLES;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; COGNITION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952403999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017635     Document Type: Article

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