Bidirectional communication between amygdala and fusiform gyrus during facial recognition

NeuroImage

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2348-2355

  Herrington, John D ^a   Taylor, James M ^a   Grupe, Daniel W ^b   Curby, Kim M ^c   Schultz, Robert T ^a,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Dynamic causal modeling; Effective connectivity; Face processing; Functional MRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL INFORMATION;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957515311     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.072     Document Type: Article

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