Backward masked fearful faces enhance contralateral occipital cortical activity for visual targets within the spotlight of attention

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 639-645

  Carlson, Joshua M ^a,b,c   Reinke, Karen S ^a,d   LaMontagne, Pamela J ^b   Habib, Reza ^a,b  

^a Memorial Hospital of Carbondale   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective neuroscience; Emotion; Facial expressions; Restricted awareness; Spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960778730     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq076     Document Type: Article

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