Responses to threat-related stimuli are influenced by conscious and unconscious
processes, but the neural systems underlying these processes and their relationship to …

Debate continues as to the automaticity of the amygdala's response to threat. Accounts
taking a strong automaticity line suggest that the amygdala's response to threat is both …

Despite the many studies highlighting the role of the amygdala in fear perception, few have
examined differences between right and left amygdalar responses. Using functional …

Facial expressions of fear are universally recognized signals of potential threat. Humans
may have evolved specialized neural systems for responding to fear in the absence of …

Trait anxiety and sex have been shown to separately account for some of the observed
individual differences in amygdala responses to emotional stimuli, but the combined effect of …

Fearfulfacial expressions evoke increased neural responses in human amygdala. We used
event-related fMRI to investigate whether eye or mouth components of a fearful face are …

Human neuroimaging studies implicate the amygdala, medial prefrontal and somatosensory-
related cortices as key neural components in the perception of facial fear signals. Yet, their …

Background: The amygdala plays a central role in the human response to affective or
emotionally charged stimuli, particularly fear-producing stimuli. We examined the specificity …

The amygdala is known to play an important role in the response to facial expressions that
convey fear. However, it remains unclear whether the amygdala's response to fear reflects …

Human adaptive behaviour to potential threats involves specialized brain responses
allowing rapid and reflexive processing of the sensory input and a more directed processing …