Robust selectivity for faces in the human amygdala in the absence of expressions

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2086-2106

  Mende Siedlecki, Peter ^a   Verosky, Sara C ^a,b   Turk Browne, Nicholas B ^a   Todorov, Alexander ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RELIABILITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84886708965     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00469     Document Type: Article

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