Fear across the senses: Brain responses to music, vocalizations and facial expressions

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 399-407

  Aubé, William ^a,b,c   Angulo Perkins, Arafat ^d   Peretz, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Concha, Luis ^a,d   Armony, Jorge L ^a,b,e  

^a International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound Research   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON BRAIN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotional expressions; Fear; Hippocampus; Music; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SINGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMMUNICATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSIC; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SINGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924627542     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu067     Document Type: Article

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