The embodiment of emotion: Language use during the feeling of social emotions predicts cortical somatosensory activity

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 806-812

  Saxbe, Darby E ^a   Yang, Xiao Fei ^a   Borofsky, Larissa A ^a   Immordino Yang, Mary Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; FMRI; Language; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY; YOUNG ADULT;

EMOTION; FMRI; LANGUAGE; SOMATOSENSORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885756714     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss075     Document Type: Article

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