Neural correlates of affective priming effects based on masked facial emotion: An fMRI study

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 211, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 239-245

  Suslow, Thomas ^a,b   Kugel, Harald ^b   Ohrmann, Patricia ^b   Stuhrmann, Anja ^b   Grotegerd, Dominik ^b   Redlich, Ronny ^b   Bauer, Jochen ^b   Dannlowski, Udo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Automatic evaluation; Evaluative shift; Facial expression; Nucleus accumbens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875367726     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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