The volatility of the amygdala response to masked fearful eyes
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Department of Psychology, University of Jena , Germany
Recently, it has been shown that backwardly masked, and thus subliminally presented fearful eyes; induce stronger amygdala activation than masked happy eyes (Whalen et al., Science 306, 2061, 2004). The present study shows that this effect results from a specific interaction between the masked eyes and the eyes of the neutral face used for backward-masking. Using another kind of mask than a face or presenting masked eyes outside the eye region of the mask abolished the amygdala response to masked fearful eyes. These findings question the suggestion that the human amygdala processes context-free parts of the face without awareness.
Conference:
10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience, Bodrum, Türkiye, 1 Sep - 5 Sep, 2008.
Presentation Type:
Poster Presentation
Topic:
Emotional Processing
Citation:
Straube
T
(2008). The volatility of the amygdala response to masked fearful eyes.
Conference Abstract:
10th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience.
doi: 10.3389/conf.neuro.09.2009.01.232
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Received:
09 Dec 2008;
Published Online:
09 Dec 2008.
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Correspondence:
Thomas Straube, Department of Psychology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany, straube@biopsy.uni-jena.de