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. 2004 Dec 17;306(5704):2061.
doi: 10.1126/science.1103617.

Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye whites

Paul J Whalen  1 , Jerome Kagan, Robert G Cook, F Caroline Davis, Hackjin Kim, Sara Polis, Donald G McLaren, Leah H Somerville, Ashly A McLean, Jeffrey S Maxwell, Tom Johnstone
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Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye whites

Paul J Whalen et al. Science. .

Abstract

The amygdala was more responsive to fearful (larger) eye whites than to happy (smaller) eye whites presented in a masking paradigm that mitigated subjects' awareness of their presence and aberrant nature. These data demonstrate that the amygdala is responsive to elements of.

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