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SUBMITTER: Wright P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2213277 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright Paul P Albarracin Dolores D Brown Rick D RD Li Hong H He Guojun G Liu Yijun Y
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Although emotional responses to stimuli may be automatic, explicit evaluation of emotion is a voluntary act. These bottom-up and top-down processes may be supported by distinct neural systems. Previous studies reported bottom-up responses in the amygdala, top-down responses in the orbital and ventromedial prefrontal cortices, and top-down modulation of the amygdalar response. The current study used event-related fMRI on fifteen healthy males to examine these responses in the absence of stimulus ...[more]