The neural correlates of affect reading: An fMRI study on faces and gestures

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 270-277

  Prochnow, D ^a   Hoing B ^a   Kleiser, R ^b   Lindenberg, R ^c   Wittsack, H J ^a   Schafer R ^a   Franz, M ^a   Seitz, R J ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision; Emotion; Empathy; Frontal cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867593697     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.08.050     Document Type: Article

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