The fusiform response to faces: Explicit versus implicit processing of emotion

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Monroe, Justin F ^a   Griffin, Mark ^b   Pinkham, Amy ^c   Loughead, James ^b   Gur, Ruben C ^b,d   Roberts, Timothy P L ^a   Christopher Edgar, J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Event related fields; Face processing; Fusiform; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870929363     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21406     Document Type: Article

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