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A differential neural response in the human amygdala to fearful and happy facial expressions

Direct in vivo evidence of a differential neural response in the human amygdala to facial expressions of fear and happiness is reported, providing direct evidence that the humangdala is engaged in processing the emotional salience of faces, with a specificity of response to fearful facial expressions.
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Activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex covaries with sympathetic skin conductance level: a physiological account of a “default mode” of brain function

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Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces

The findings extend a proposed model of social cognition by highlighting a functional dissociation between automatic engagement of amygdala versus intentional engagement of STS in social judgment.
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Recollection and Familiarity in Recognition Memory: An Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

It is suggested that the responses of different brain regions do dissociate according to the phenomenology associated with memory retrieval, and both R and K judgments for studied words and N judgments for unstudied words were associated with enhanced responses.
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Beauty in a smile: the role of medial orbitofrontal cortex in facial attractiveness

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A subcortical pathway to the right amygdala mediating "unseen" fear.

A subcortical pathway to the right amygdala, via midbrain and thalamus, provides a route for processing behaviorally relevant unseen visual events in parallel to a cortical route necessary for conscious identification.
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Dissociable neural responses to facial expressions of sadness and anger.

Functional neuroimaging results provide evidence for dissociable, but interlocking, systems for the processing of distinct categories of negative facial expression.
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Dissociable functions in the medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex: evidence from human neuroimaging studies.

It is suggested that selection of stimuli on the based of their familiarity and responses on the basis of a feeling of 'rightness' are also examples of selection on theBased of reward value, the lateral regions are more likely to be involved when the action selected requires the suppression of previously rewarded responses.
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Neural Activity Relating to Generation and Representation of Galvanic Skin Conductance Responses: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

The results suggest that areas implicated in emotion and attention are differentially involved in generation and representation of peripheral SCR responses, and propose that this functional arrangement enables integration of adaptive bodily responses with ongoing emotional and attentional states of the organism.
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The functional anatomy of motor recovery after stroke in humans: A study with positron emission tomography

The results suggest that ipsilateral motor pathways may play a role in the recovery of motor function after ischemic stroke.
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