The stimuli drive the response: An fMRI study of youth processing adult or child emotional face stimuli

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 679-689

  Marusak, Hilary A ^a,b   Carré, Justin M ^a   Thomason, Moriah E ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Emotion; Faces; FMRI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; EMOTION; FACES; FMRI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 84881098573     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.002     Document Type: Article

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