Hemispheric Asymmetry for Affective Stimulus Processing in Healthy Subjects–A fMRI Study

Esther M. Beraha, Jonathan Eggers, Catherine Hindi Attar, Stefan Gutwinski, Florian Schlagenhauf, Meline Stoy, Philipp Sterzer, Thorsten Kienast, Andreas Heinz, Felix Bermpohl

PLoS ONE · 2012 · 73 citations · 53 references

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Abstract

Our data suggests region-specific functional lateralization of emotion processing. Findings show valence asymmetry for prefrontal cortical areas and left-lateralized negative stimulus processing in subcortical areas, in particular, amygdala and uncus.

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