Brain activation during direct and indirect processing of positive and negative words

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 66-72

  Straube, Thomas ^a   Sauer, Andreas ^a   Miltner, Wolfgang H R ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Arousal; Emotional stimuli; FMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Valence; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953795320     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.037     Document Type: Article

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