Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 963-973

  Wallentin, Mikkel ^a,b   Nielsen, Andreas Højlund ^a,b   Vuust, Peter ^a,c   Dohn, Anders ^a,c   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a,b   Lund, Torben Ellegaard ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052160918     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.077     Document Type: Article

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