Brain Areas Specific for Attentional Load in a Motion-Tracking Task

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Jovicich;Robert J. Peters;Christof Koch;Jochen Braun;Linda Chang;Thomas Ernst

  • Affiliations:
  • California Institute of Technology & Harbor-UCLA Medical Center;California Institute of Technology;California Institute of Technology;California Institute of Technology;Harbor-UCLA Medical Center;Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Some involvement of the human amygdala in the processing of facial expressions has been investigated in neuroimaging studies, although the neural mechanisms underlying motivated or emotional behavior in response to facial stimuli are not yet fully understood. ...