TY - JOUR
T1 - Neuroanatomical correlates of visual field bias
T2 - A sensitive system for detecting potential threats?
AU - Preibisch, Christine
AU - Lanfermann, Heinrich
AU - Wallenhorst, Tim
AU - Walter, Henrik
AU - Erk, Susanne
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all volunteers who participated in this study. This study was supported by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Brain Imaging Center Frankfurt, DLR 01GO0203).
PY - 2009/3/31
Y1 - 2009/3/31
N2 - Preferred pathways of emotional processing were investigated in an fMRI study where fearful and neutral faces were presented in the left, right or central visual field. Seventeen male volunteers were imaged at 3.0 T using GE-EPI. Spatial preprocessing and statistical analyses were performed using SPM2. A preference for peripheral fearful and central neutral faces was found in frontal and temporal areas, temporal pole, putamen, and ACC. A subset showed a significant preference for fearful faces in the right hemifield. These results seem to suggest a sensitive network for preferential processing of potential threat signals.
AB - Preferred pathways of emotional processing were investigated in an fMRI study where fearful and neutral faces were presented in the left, right or central visual field. Seventeen male volunteers were imaged at 3.0 T using GE-EPI. Spatial preprocessing and statistical analyses were performed using SPM2. A preference for peripheral fearful and central neutral faces was found in frontal and temporal areas, temporal pole, putamen, and ACC. A subset showed a significant preference for fearful faces in the right hemifield. These results seem to suggest a sensitive network for preferential processing of potential threat signals.
KW - Emotion
KW - Fearful face
KW - Hemifield stimulation
KW - Hemispheric dominance
KW - fMRI
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U2 - 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.01.051
DO - 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.01.051
M3 - Article
C2 - 19368816
AN - SCOPUS:61849155781
SN - 0006-8993
VL - 1263
SP - 69
EP - 77
JO - Brain Research
JF - Brain Research
ER -