Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults

KM Thomas, WC Drevets, PJ Whalen, CH Eccard… - Biological …, 2001 - Elsevier
Amygdala activation was defined on the reference brain using Talairach coordinates and
consensus among three raters (BJC, KMT, PJW). Significant regions that extended outside of …

Amygdalar activation associated with positive and negative facial expressions

TT Yang, V Menon, S Eliez, C Blasey, CD White… - …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
… human amygdalar responses to fearful and angry facial expressions [ 9 ]. The current study
confirms that the amygdala is activated by angry faces and provides additional information by …

A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions

JS Morris, CD Frith, DI Perrett, D Rowland, AW Young… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
… by expression, suggests that amygdala activation is not contingent upon explicit processing
of facial expression, a … The differential response within the amygdala, to fearful as opposed to …

A neuromodulatory role for the human amygdala in processing emotional facial expressions.

JS Morris, KJ Friston, C Büchel, CD Frith… - Brain: a journal of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
… Its activation by fearful expressions in the present study, together with its extensive reciprocal
anatomical connections with the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex (Augustine, 1985, …

Amygdala activation and facial expressions: explicit emotion discrimination versus implicit emotion processing

U Habel, C Windischberger, B Derntl, S Robinson… - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
… we show strong and robust amygdala activation for explicit and implicit processing of
emotional facial expressions in 29 healthy subjects. Bilateral amygdala activation was, however, …

A developmental examination of amygdala response to facial expressions

AE Guyer, CS Monk, EB McClure-Tone… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2008 - direct.mit.edu
… between age (ranging from 4 to 22 years old) and brain structure size (Lenroot & Giedd,
2006); thus, we explored possible nonlinear relationships between age and amygdala activation

Amygdala activation to masked happy facial expressions

MF Juruena, VP Giampietro, SD Smith… - Journal of the …, 2010 - cambridge.org
… In the present study, we sought to examine amygdala activation to non-conscious presentation
facial expressions. We expected significant amygdala activation to masked happy faces. …

Neural responses to facial expressions support the role of the amygdala in processing threat

G Mattavelli, M Sormaz, T Flack… - Social cognitive and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Amygdala activation was found for all the facial expressions. However, this face vs non-face
To test specific effects of emotion type in amygdala activation, we extracted the per cent …

Masked presentations of emotional facial expressions modulate amygdala activity without explicit knowledge

PJ Whalen, SL Rauch, NL Etcoff… - Journal of …, 1998 - Soc Neuroscience
… Specifically, we demonstrated isolated amygdala activation in response to masked
presentations of facial expressions that prevented explicit knowledge. These data underscore the …

Amygdala activation at 3T in response to human and avatar facial expressions of emotions

E Moser, B Derntl, S Robinson, B Fink, RC Gur… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2007 - Elsevier
activation similar to facial images of real people. We hypothesized that avatar facial expressions
would elicit a similar amygdalaactivation of brain areas known to play a role in face