Neural substrates of social emotion regulation: A fMRI study on imitation and expressive suppression to dynamic facial signals

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Vrticka, Pascal ^a,b   Simioni, Samanta ^b,c   Fornari, Eleonora ^c   Schluep, Myriam ^c   Vuilleumier, Patrik ^b   Sander, David ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Emotion regulation; Emotional facial expressions; Expressive suppression; Fmri; Imitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878751280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00095     Document Type: Article

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