Neural processing of negative emotional stimuli and the influence of age, sex and task-related characteristics

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue , 2016, Pages 773-793

  Garcia Garcia I ^a   Kube, J ^a,b   Gaebler, M ^a,b,c   Horstmann, A ^a,b   Villringer, A ^a,b,c   Neumann, J ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affect; Age; Emotion; Faces; fMRI; Images; Sex; Words

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; AMYGDALA; ANGER; DISGUST; EMOTIONALITY; FACIES; FEAR; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SADNESS; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTION; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84978647634     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.04.020     Document Type: Review

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