The Impact of Childhood Experience on Amygdala Response to Perceptually Familiar Black and White Faces

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1992-2004

  Cloutier, Jasmin ^a   Li, Tianyi ^a   Correll, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRES; RACE RELATIONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905180605     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00605     Document Type: Article

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