Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of face approachability: Correlations with trait anxiety

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 156-167

  Toki, Shigeru ^a   Okamoto, Yasumasa ^a   Onoda, Keiichi ^c   Kinoshita, Akiko ^a   Shishida, Kazuhiro ^a   Machino, Akihiko ^a   Fukumoto, Takuji ^a   Yamashita, Hidehisa ^a   Yoshida, Hiroshi ^b   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hijiyama University   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Approachability judgment; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SEXISM; SOCIAL COGNITION; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NEUROBIOLOGY; SEX;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANXIETY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888256685     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000353268     Document Type: Article

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