The Face of Negative Affect: Trial-by-Trial Corrugator Responses to Negative Pictures Are Positively Associated with Amygdala and Negatively Associated with Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2102-2110

  Heller, Aaron S ^a   Lapate, Regina C ^a   Mayer, Kaitlyn E ^a   Davidson, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMYGDALA; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FACE; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AMYGDALA; BRAIN MAPPING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACE; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905159054     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00622     Document Type: Article

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