Very early modulation of brain responses to neutral faces by a single prior association with an emotional context: Evidence from MEG

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1461-1470

  Morel, Shasha ^a,b   Beaucousin, Virginie ^b   Perrin, Margaux ^d   George, Nathalie ^a,c  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d LYON NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

Author keywords

Association; Emotion; Face; MEG; Memory trace

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY MEMORY; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBALIZATION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 84861554020     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.04.016     Document Type: Article

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