How the human brain represents perceived dangerousness or “predacity” of animals

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 5373-5384

  Connolly, Andrew C ^a   Sha, Long ^b   Swaroop Guntupalli, J ^c   Oosterhof, Nikolaas ^d   Halchenko, Yaroslav O ^c   Nastase, Samuel A ^c   Castello, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio ^c   Abdi, Hervé ^e   Jobst, Barbara C ^a   Ida Gobbini, M ^c,f   Haxby, James V ^c,d  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Categories; fMRI; MVPA; Representation similarity analysis; STATIS; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THREAT; VISUAL STIMULATION; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CLASSIFICATION; CONNECTOME; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REPTILE; VISION;

ADULT; AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPTILES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84966534224     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3395-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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