Cortico-subcortical visual, somatosensory, and motor activations for perceiving dynamic whole-body emotional expressions with and without striate cortex (V1)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16188-16193

  Van Den Stock, Jan ^a,b   Tamietto, Marco ^a,c   Sorger, Bettina ^d   Pichon, Swann ^e   Grézes, Julie ^f   De Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,g  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^f ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindsight; Body expressions; Consciousness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BLINDNESS; CASE REPORT; EMOTION; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HUMAN; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; STIMULUS; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WHOLE BODY EMOTIONAL ACTION;

BLINDNESS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80053622512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1107214108     Document Type: Article

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