Individual differences in the evaluation of ambiguous visual and auditory threat‐related expressions

• Published in: The European journal of neuroscience Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 370 - 393
• Main Authors: Whitehead, Jocelyne C., Spiousas, Ignacio, Armony, Jorge L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2024
• Subjects: Amygdala; Anxiety; Brain mapping; Decision making; emotion; Emotions; Fear; fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Hearing; Magnetic resonance imaging; Mental task performance; Neuroimaging; perception; Sensory integration; Visual perception; anxiety; fMRI; amygdala; emotion; perception

This study investigated the neural correlates of the judgement of auditory and visual ambiguous threat‐related information, and the influence of state anxiety on this process. Healthy subjects were scanned using a fast, high‐resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) multiband sequence...