Are you upset? Distinct roles for orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex in detecting and distinguishing facial expressions of emotion

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2904-2912

  Tsuchida, Ami ^a   Fellows, Lesley K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

emotion recognition; lesion symptom mapping; prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84863839872     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr370     Document Type: Article

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