The constructive nature of affective vision: seeing fearful scenes activates extrastriate body area.

It is part of basic emotions like fear or anger that they prepare the brain to act adaptively. Hence scenes representing emotional events are normally associated with characteristic adaptive behavior. Normally, face and body representation areas in the brain are modulated by these emotions when pres...

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Main Authors: Charlotte B A Sinke, Jan Van den Stock, Rainer Goebel, Beatrice de Gelder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3387182?pdf=render