Attention and awareness each influence amygdala activity for dynamic bodily expressions - A short review

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST 2012, 2012, Pages

  de Gelder, Beatrice ^a,b,c   Hortensius, Ruud ^a   Tamietto, Marco ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Awareness; Bodily expressions; Dynamic stimuli; Emotion

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 84864999159     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00054     Document Type: Review

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