The constructive nature of affective vision: Seeing fearful scenes activates extrastriate body area

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sinke, Charlotte B A ^a,b   van den Stock, Jan ^a   Goebel, Rainer ^b   de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECTIVE VISION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84863102913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038118     Document Type: Article

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