Personality influences the neural responses to viewing facial expressions of emotion

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1571, 2011, Pages 1684-1701

  Calder, Andrew J ^a   Ewbank, Michael ^a   Passamonti, Luca ^a,b  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aggression; Amygdala; Anxiety; Facial expressions; fMRI; Personality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; VISION;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANGER; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROBIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955780051     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2010.0362     Document Type: Review

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