The amygdala’s response to face and emotional information and potential category-specific modulation of temporal cortex as a function of emotion.

The amygdala has been implicated in the processing of emotion and animacy information and to be responsivity to novelty. However, the way in which these functions interact is poorly understood. Subjects (N= 30) viewed threatening or neutral images that could be either animate (facial expressions) or...

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Main Authors: Stuart F. White, Christopher eAdalio, Zachary eNolan, Jiongjiong eYang, Alex eMartin, James eBlair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00714/full