Fearful faces heighten the cortical representation of contextual threat

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 317-325

  Wieser, Matthias J ^a   Keil, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial expression; Fear; Vigilance; Visual context; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; THREAT; VISUAL CONTEXT; VISUAL SYSTEM; AROUSAL; CONTEXTUAL THREAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FEARFUL FACE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PERIPHERAL VISION; RESPONSE TIME; STEADY STATE VISUALLY EVOKED POTENTIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; VIGILANCE; VISUAL CONTEXT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891560703     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.10.008     Document Type: Article

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