Emotional self-reference: Brain structures involved in the processing of words describing one's own emotions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2947-2956

  Herbert, Cornelia ^a   Herbert, Beate M ^b   Pauli, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Emotion; Functional imaging; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL LEARNING; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 80051469359     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.06.026     Document Type: Article

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