Amygdala volume predicts patterns of eye fixation in rhesus monkeys

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 433-437

  Zhang, Bo ^a   Noble, Pamela L ^a   Winslow, James T ^a   Pine, Daniel S ^a   Nelson, Eric E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliative; Face recognition; Gaze; MRI; Social

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; KETAMINE; XYLAZINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HABITUATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84862784892     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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