Add a picture for suspense: Neural correlates of the interaction between language and visual information in the perception of fear

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 404-416

  Willems, Roel M ^a,b   Clevis, Krien ^c,d   Hagoort, Peter ^a,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emotion; Film theory; FMRI; Language; Scenes; Temporal pole

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961224948     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq050     Document Type: Article

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