Adolescents' emotional competence is associated with parents' neural sensitivity to emotions

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Telzer, Eva H ^a   Qu, Yang ^a   Goldenberg, Diane ^b   Fuligni, Andrew J ^b   Galván, Adriana ^b   Lieberman, Matthew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Emotional competence; Emotions; Family; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PUTAMEN; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84904624798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00558     Document Type: Article

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