Differential amygdala activation to negative and positive emotional pictures during an indirect task Export

@article{citeulike:3428518, abstract = {The role of the amygdala for the processing of valence and arousal is a matter of debate. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we tested valence-specific amygdala effects during attentional distraction. Subjects attended to a matching task in the foreground of neutral pictures, and of negative and positive pictures matched for arousal. Negative pictures elicited stronger amygdala activation than neutral or positive pictures, suggesting valence-specific amygdala responses under attentional load.}, author = {Straube, T. and Pohlack, S. and Mentzel, H. and Miltner, W.}, citeulike-article-id = {3428518}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.040}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166432808001861}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466987}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18466987}, day = {22}, doi = {10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.040}, issn = {01664328}, journal = {Behavioural Brain Research}, keywords = {activation, amygdala, an, and, differential, during, emotional, indirect, negative, pictures, positive, task, to}, month = {August}, number = {2}, pages = {285--288}, posted-at = {2008-10-19 04:54:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Differential amygdala activation to negative and positive emotional pictures during an indirect task}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.040}, volume = {191}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3428518 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3428518 N2 - The role of the amygdala for the processing of valence and arousal is a matter of debate. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging, we tested valence-specific amygdala effects during attentional distraction. Subjects attended to a matching task in the foreground of neutral pictures, and of negative and positive pictures matched for arousal. Negative pictures elicited stronger amygdala activation than neutral or positive pictures, suggesting valence-specific amygdala responses under attentional load. IS - 2 JF - Behavioural Brain Research SN - 01664328 EP - 288 TI - Differential amygdala activation to negative and positive emotional pictures during an indirect task VL - 191 SP - 285 KW - activation KW - amygdala KW - an KW - and KW - differential KW - during KW - emotional KW - indirect KW - negative KW - pictures KW - positive KW - task KW - to AU - Straube, T AU - Pohlack, S AU - Mentzel, H AU - Miltner, W PY - 2008/08/22/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.040 ER -