… Given an a priori hypothesis of amygdala responsivity, we examined activation in the
bilateral amygdala using anatomically defined, 10 mm spherical ROIs. A repeated-measures …

… people to prioritize fearful faces compared to neutral, non-social stimuli corresponds to
differences in amygdala responsivity. To test this, we suppressed fearful faces and houses while …

… respond differentially to fearful compared to neutral faces even when the eye region is hidden.
… Instead, our observations of amygdala responsiveness to a range of cues are consistent …

… As we will discuss later, this mechanism seems to depend on Amg responsivity. … Indeed, a
subpopulation of neurons in the superior colliculus responds to faces or face-like images also …

… amygdala responses to briefly flashed and masked faces are independent of visual awareness
and stimulus visibility. We show, first, that amygdala … evoked by unseen faces are weak …

… suppression, when it is typically invisible [23 • ]. Yet differential responses in the … faces was
smaller in the amygdala to suppressed fear faces, and BOLD signal to suppressed fear faces …

… faces (p < .05) in the ventral amygdala during rivalry scans, we saw no differences in activation
between faces … Jiang and He (2006) demonstrated activation to invisible fearful faces in …

… fearful or neutral faces were ‘unseen’ (button press ‘no face’)… immediate amygdala responsivity
to fearful faces in anxiety … PTSD exhibited exaggerated amygdala responsivity compared …

… fear-conditioned faces were unseen rather than seen. Right amygdala connectivity with …
the unseen CS+ than the unseen CS− faces. These results have been reported in detail (9). …

… Based on our finding of right superficial amygdala activation to both faces and houses, we
… That is, unseen fearful faces activated more amygdala than unseen houses. Accompanying …