Conscious and unconscious processing of fear after right amygdala damage: A single case ERP-study

Neurocase

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 297-312

  Heutink, Joost ^a   Brouwer, Wiebo H ^a   de Jong, Bauke M ^b   Bouma, Anke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Emotional facial expressions; ERP; Fear; Unconscious processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVERSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DYSARTHRIA; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; RIGHT AMYGDALA LESION; TEMPORAL LOBE INFARCTION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VISION;

AMYGDALA; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960702331     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2010.504730     Document Type: Article

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