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. 2004 Aug 17;101(33):11915-6.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404264101. Epub 2004 Aug 10.

The privileged status of emotion in the brain

Richard J Davidson  1 , Jeffrey S Maxwell, Alexander J Shackman
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The privileged status of emotion in the brain

Richard J Davidson et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
The distributed representation of visual emotional stimuli in the human brain. (A) The network of face-responsive regions examined by Ishai et al. (1) displayed as coronal sections, showing activation in the inferior occipital gyri (IOG), fusiform gyrus (FG) and superior temporal sulcus (STS), extended amygdala, and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG)/insula. (B) Amygdala regions of interest (in red) that we have shown to be differentially responsive to affective visual stimuli and psychopathology (from ref. 16). (C) Cortical regions commonly associated with viewing emotional compared with neutral faces. Depicted is a sagittal view of significant activation (Z > 4.2) in FG (lower left cluster) and IOG (lower right cluster) from a representative individual in response to angry compared with neutral faces (unpublished observations).
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