Emotional face expression modulates occipital-frontal effective connectivity during memory formation in a bottom-up fashion

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Xiu, Daiming ^a   Geiger, Maximilian J ^b   Kiaver, Peter ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d Neuroscience Center Zurich and Division of Neurosurgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dynamic Causal Modeling; Facial affect; fMRI; Memory formation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; OCCIPITAL VISUAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84929158125     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00090     Document Type: Article

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