Task-dependent neural bases of perceiving emotionally expressive targets

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Zaki, Jamil ^a   Weber, Jochen ^b   Ochsner, Kevin ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotional expressivity; Empathy; FMRI; Medial prefrontal cortex; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 84933673547     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00228     Document Type: Article

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