Emotion and the brain: Multiple roads are better than one

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 425-

  Pessoa, Luiz ^a   Adolphs, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LETTER; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; SUBCORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 79959380583     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2920-c2     Document Type: Letter

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