Modulation of the fusiform face area following minimal exposure to motivationally relevant faces: Evidence of in-group enhancement (not out-group disregard)

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3343-3354

  van Bavel, Jay J ^a   Packer, Dominic J ^b   Cunningham, William A ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053487333     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00016     Document Type: Article

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