Emotional visual stimuli evoke enhanced responses in the visual cortex. To test whether this
reflects modulatory influences from the amygdala on sensory processing, we used event …

Brain imaging studies in humans have shown that face processing in several areas is
modulated by the affective significance of faces, particularly with fearful expressions, but …

High and low spatial frequency information in visual images is processed by distinct neural
channels. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans, we …

We measured amygdala activity in human volunteers during rapid visual presentations of
fearful, happy, and neutral faces using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The …

The visual cortex is sensitive to emotional stimuli. This sensitivity is typically assumed to
arise when amygdala modulates visual cortex via backwards connections. Using human …

We used event-related fMRI to assess whether brain responses to fearful versus neutral
faces are modulated by spatial attention. Subjects performed a demanding matching task for …

Destruction of the brain's primary visual areas leads to blindness of cortical origin. Here we
report on a subject who, after bilateral destruction of his visual cortices and ensuing cortical …

Attention gates the processing of stimuli relatively early in visual cortex. Yet, existing data
suggest that emotional stimuli activate brain regions automatically, largely immune from …

Face perception elicits activation within a distributed cortical network in the human brain.
The network includes visual (“core”) regions, as well as limbic and prefrontal (“extended”) …

The ability to process and respond to emotional facial expressions is a critical skill for
healthy social and emotional development. There has been growing interest in …