Early Preferential Responses to Fear Stimuli in Human Right Dorsal Visual Stream - A Meg Study
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Meeren, Hanneke K. M.
Hadjikhani, Nouchine
Ahlfors, Seppo P.
Hamalainen, Matti S.
de Gelder, Beatrice
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April 2016
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Scientific Reports
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Meeren, Hanneke K.M., Nouchine Hadjikhani, Seppo P. Ahlfors, Matti S. Hämäläinen, and Beatrice de Gelder. "Early Preferential Responses to Fear Stimuli in Human Right Dorsal Visual Stream - A Meg Study." Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 24831 (April 2016).
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Abstract
Emotional expressions of others are salient biological stimuli that automatically capture attention and prepare us for action. We investigated the early cortical dynamics of automatic visual discrimination of fearful body expressions by monitoring cortical activity using magnetoencephalography. We show that right parietal cortex distinguishes between fearful and neutral bodies as early as 80-ms after stimulus onset, providing the first evidence for a fast emotion-attention-action link through human dorsal visual stream.
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Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1038/srep24831
