Emotion in the brain: Of low roads, high roads and roads less travelled

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 425-

  De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b   Van Honk, Jack ^c,d   Tamietto, Marco ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; EMOTION; FEAR; GIANT CELL; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LETTER; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79959378001     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2920-c1     Document Type: Letter

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