Features versus feelings: Dissociable representations of the acoustic features and valence of aversive sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14184-14192

  Kumar, Sukhbinder ^a,b   von Kriegstein, Katharina ^c   Friston, Karl ^b   Griffiths, Timothy D ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ACOUSTIC STRESS; ACOUSTICS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUSAL MODELING; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AMYGDALA; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE NET; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867240378     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1759-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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