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20045736

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-17
pubmed:abstractText
Human adaptive behaviour to potential threats involves specialized brain responses allowing rapid and reflexive processing of the sensory input and a more directed processing for later evaluation of the nature of the threat. The amygdalae are known to play a key role in emotion processing. It is suggested that the amygdalae process threat-related information through a fast subcortical route and slower cortical feedback. Evidence from human data supporting this hypothesis is lacking. The present study investigated event-related neural responses during processing of facial emotions in the unattended hemifield using magnetoencephalography (MEG) and found activations of the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex to fear as early as 100 ms. The right amygdala exhibited temporally dissociated activations to input from different visual fields, suggesting early subcortical versus later cortical processing of fear. We also observed asymmetrical fusiform activity related to lateralized feed-forward processing of the faces in the visual-ventral stream. Results demonstrate fast, automatic, and parallel processing of unattended emotional faces, providing important insights into the specific and dissociated neural pathways in emotion and face perception.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1095-9572
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
50
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
727-33
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Unattended emotional faces elicit early lateralized amygdala-frontal and fusiform activations.
pubmed:affiliation
Diagnostic Imaging, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't