Investigating the brain basis of facial expression perception using multi-voxel pattern analysis

Cortex

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-140

  Wegrzyn, Martin ^a   Riehle, Marcel ^a   Labudda, Kirsten ^b   Woermann, Friedrich ^b   Baumgartner, Florian ^c   Pollmann, Stefan ^c   Bien, Christian G ^b   Kissler, Johanna ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EPILEPSY CENTER BETHEL   (Germany)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Face perception; Facial expressions; FMRI; MVPA

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; MALE; MULTI VOXEL PATTERN ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PERCEPTION; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SEXISM; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930670382     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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