Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye whites.
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.
Whalen
Paul J
PJ
Department of Psychiatry, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. pwhalen@wisc.edu
Kagan
Jerome
J
Cook
Robert G
RG
Davis
F Caroline
FC
Kim
Hackjin
H
Polis
Sara
S
McLaren
Donald G
DG
Somerville
Leah H
LH
McLean
Ashly A
AA
Maxwell
Jeffrey S
JS
Johnstone
Tom
T
D000328:Adult; D000679:Amygdala / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D012590:Sclera