Emotional expressions evoke a differential response in the fusiform face area

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Harry, Bronson ^a   Williams, Mark A ^b   Davis, Chris ^c   Kim, Jeesun ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face processing; Fusiform face area; Multivariate pattern analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84888096820     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00692     Document Type: Article

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