Journal
EMOTION
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 12-22Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.1.12
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- NIDA NIH HHS [DA14094] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH60451] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Fear-related processing in the amygdala has been well documented, but its role in signaling other emotions remains controversial. The authors recovered signal loss in the amygdala at high-field strength using an inward spiral pulse sequence and probed its response to pictures varying in their degree of portrayed sadness. These pictures were presented as intermittent task-irrelevant distractors during a concurrent visual oddball task. Relative to neutral distractors, sad distractors elicited greater activation along ventral brain regions, including the amygdala, fusiform gyrus, and inferior frontal gyrus. In contrast, oddball targets engaged dorsal sectors of frontal, parietal, and cingulate cortices. The amygdala's role in emotional evaluation thus extends to images of grief and despair as well as to those depicting violence and threat.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available