Comparison of activation patterns between masking and inattention tasks: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of implicit emotional face processing

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Shi, Huqing ^a   Wang, Xiang ^a   Yao, Shuqiao ^a  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Emotional faces; FMRI; Implicit processing; Inattention; Masking

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION META ANALYSIS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BILATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN ACTIVATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INATTENTION; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LEFT INSULA; LEFT PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; MALE; MASKING; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RIGHT FUSIFORM GYRUS; RIGHT MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; RIGHT MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84884685129     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00459     Document Type: Article

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