RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Emotional Automaticity Is a Matter of Timing
JF The Journal of Neuroscience
JO J. Neurosci.
FD Society for Neuroscience
SP 5825
OP 5829
DO 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.BC-5668-09.2010
VO 30
IS 17
A1 Luo, Qian
A1 Holroyd, Tom
A1 Majestic, Catherine
A1 Cheng, Xi
A1 Schechter, Julia
A1 Blair, R. James
YR 2010
UL http://www.jneurosci.org/content/30/17/5825.abstract
AB There has been a long controversy concerning whether the amygdala's response to emotional stimuli is automatic or dependent on attentional load. Using magnoencephalography and an advanced beamformer source localization technique, we found that amygdala automaticity was a function of time: while early amygdala responding to emotional stimuli (40–140 ms) was unaffected by attentional load, later amygdala response (280–410 ms), subsequent to frontoparietal cortex activity, was modulated by attentional load.