Detecting emotion in others: Increased insula and decreased medial prefrontal cortex activation during emotion processing in elite adventure racers

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 225-231

  Thom, Nathaniel J ^a,b   Johnson, Douglas C ^a,c   Flagan, Taru ^c   Simmons, Alan N ^c   Kotturi, Sante A ^c   Van Orden, Karl F ^a   Potterat, Eric G ^a,d   Swain, Judith L ^a,c,e   Paulus, Martin P ^a,c  

^a OptiBrain Consortium   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAC+USC Medical Center   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Athlete; Emotion detection; Interoception; Resilience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; EMOTION DETECTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RESILIENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATHLETE; EMOTION DETECTION; INTEROCEPTION; RESILIENCE;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EMOTIONS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893415162     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss127     Document Type: Article

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