title: Human amygdala responsivity to masked fearful eye whites.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. pwhalen@wisc.edu
authors.forename: Paul J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Whalen
authors.forename: Jerome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kagan
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: F Caroline
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Hackjin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Polis
authors.forename: Donald G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: McLaren
authors.forename: Leah H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Somerville
authors.forename: Ashly A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: McLean
authors.forename: Jeffrey S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Maxwell
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Johnstone
mesh_terms: 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