Bottom-up and top-down emotion generation: Implications for emotion regulation

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 253-262

  McRae, Kateri ^a   Misra, Supriya ^b   Prasad, Aditya K ^b   Pereira, Sean C ^b   Gross, James J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdale; Emotion elicitation; Emotion regulation; Face; Reappraisal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855676413     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq103     Document Type: Article

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