Is fear perception special? Evidence at the level of decision-making and subjective confidence

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1772-1782

  Koizumi, Ai ^a,b,c,d   Mobbs, Dean ^a,e   Lau, Hakwan ^f  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLFPC); Fearful face perception; Metacognition; Perceptual decision making; Voxelbased morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METACOGNITION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL RECOGNITION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METACOGNITION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996866070     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw084     Document Type: Article

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