Masked presentations of emotional facial expressions modulate amygdala activity without explicit knowledge.

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Published in J Neurosci on January 01, 1998

Authors

P J Whalen1, S L Rauch, N L Etcoff, S C McInerney, M B Lee, M A Jenike

Author Affiliations

1: Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Group and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. paulw@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu

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