Nonconscious emotional processing involves distinct neural pathways for pictures and videos

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3736-3744

  Faivre, Nathan ^a,b   Charron, Sylvain ^a   Roux, Paul ^a   Lehéricy, Stéphane ^c   Kouider, Sid ^a  

^a PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Awareness; FMRI; Fusiform face area; Psychophysiological interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NONCONSCIOUS EMOTIONAL PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIPHERAL VISION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CROWDING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869864771     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.10.025     Document Type: Article

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