Dispositional fear, negative affectivity, and neuroimaging response to visually suppressed emotional faces

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 761-771

  Vizueta, Nathalie ^a   Patrick, Christopher J ^b   Jiang, Yi ^c   Thomas, Kathleen M ^a   He, Sheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Binocular rivalry; Continuous flash suppression; Functional MRI; Individual differences; Invisible faces

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTINUOUS FLASH SUPPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEARLESSNESS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEGATIVE AFFECTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS;

AFFECT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEAR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROIMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 80053635017     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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