Cortical functional connectivity decodes subconscious, task-irrelevant threat-related emotion processing

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 1355 - 1363
• Main Authors: Pantazatos, Spiro P., Talati, Ardesheer, Pavlidis, Paul, Hirsch, Joy
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 16.07.2012; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Amygdala; Anxiety; Brain; Brain Mapping; Brain-reading; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Emotion processing; Emotions; Emotions - physiology; Facial Expression; Fear - physiology; Female; Functional networks; Humans; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical research; Neural Pathways - physiology; Recognition (Psychology) - physiology; Studies; Subconscious threat detection; Brain-reading; Subconscious threat detection; Emotion processing; Functional networks

It is currently unclear to what extent cortical structures are required for and engaged during subconscious processing of biologically salient affective stimuli (i.e. the ‘low-road’ vs. ‘many-roads’ hypotheses). Here we show that cortical–cortical and cortical–subcortical functional connectivity (FC...