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The constructive nature of affective vision: seeing fearful scenes activates extrastriate body area
- Source :
- PLOS ONE, 7(6):38118. Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, PLOS ONE, 7(6):e38118. PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 6, p e38118 (2012)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- 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 presented in the face or body. Here, we provide neuroimaging evidence (using functional magnetic resonance imaging) that the extrastriate body area (EBA) is highly responsive when subjects observe isolated faces presented in emotional scenes. This response of EBA to threatening scenes in which no body is present gives rise to speculation about its function. We discuss the possibility that the brain reacts proactively to the emotional meaning of the scene. ispartof: PLoS One vol:7 issue:6 ispartof: location:United States status: published
- Subjects :
- Male
Visual System
Emotions
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ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Brain mapping
Behavioral Neuroscience
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EXPRESSIONS
GYRUS
Psychology
BRAIN
ANTICIPATION
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media_common
Adaptive behavior
Brain Mapping
Multidisciplinary
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fMRI
05 social sciences
Brain
Fear
Sensory Systems
Sensory Perception
psychological phenomena and processes
Research Article
Cognitive psychology
Adult
CORTEX
Cognitive Neuroscience
Emotion classification
media_common.quotation_subject
Neuroimaging
Context (language use)
Cognitive neuroscience
050105 experimental psychology
Extrastriate body area
03 medical and health sciences
Neuropsychology
Perception
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Biology
Vision, Ocular
Behavior
PERCEPTION
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RECOGNITION
CONTEXT
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Photic Stimulation
Neuroscience
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE, 7(6):38118. Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, PLOS ONE, 7(6):e38118. PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 6, p e38118 (2012)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....850922b2fd939f108469cada006a8487