Feature-based representations of emotional facial expressions in the human amygdala

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1372-1378

  Ahs, Fredrik ^a   Davis, Caroline F ^a   Gorka, Adam X ^a   Hariri, Ahmad R ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Classification; Correlation; FMRI; Perception; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928418020     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst112     Document Type: Article

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