A functional MRI study of human amygdala responses to facial expressions of fear versus anger.

By P. Whalen, Lisa M. Shin, S. McInerney, H. Fischer, Christopher I. Wright, Scott L. Rauch. Emotion, 2001

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Neural bases of the non-conscious perception of emotional signals (2010, background): “The substantia innominata is a sublenticular portion of the basal forebrain and comprises several intermingled neuronal groups — such as the sublenticular extended amygdala and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis — that represent an extension of the dorsal amygdal”
Dissociable Neural Pathways Are Involved in the Recognition of Emotion in Static and Dynamic Facial Expressions (2003, positive): “Angry and happy facial expressions are thought to be recognized by separate neural correlates (Blair et al., 1999; Phillips et al., 1999; Whalen et al., 2001).”
Are Emotions Natural Kinds? (2006, neutral): “For example, according to work by Whalen and his colleagues (Kim et al., 2003, 2004; Whalen et al., 2001), more precise (Koski & Paus, 2000).”
Reduced amygdala response to fearful expressions in children and adolescents with callous-unemotional traits and disruptive behavior disorders. (2008, background): “Children with callous-unemotional traits exhibit abnormal behavioral responses to distress-related expressions, such as fearful expressions, relative to other expressions, such as anger (13), and fearful expressions engage the amygdala more than do neutral or angry expressions (14).”
A Developmental Shift from Positive to Negative Connectivity in Human Amygdala-Prefrontal Circuitry (2013, background): “In addition, this region was selected to increase specificity, given known differences in amygdala functionality (Whalen et al., 2001) and connectivity within amygdala subregions (Roy et al.”
The Neurocircuitry of Fear, Stress, and Anxiety Disorders (2011, background): “…photographs of facial expressions, especially those of fear (Breiter et al, 1996a; Davis and Whalen, 2001; Fitzgerald et al, 2006; Morris et al, 1996; Vuilleumier and Pourtois, 2007; Whalen et al, 2001), even when presented below conscious awareness (Morris et al, 1998; Whalen et al, 1998, 2004).”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “This cell complex plays a role in evaluating the biological significance and emotional salience of stimuli, shaping the way ambiguous information is processed, and organizing biobehavioral responses to situations perceived as threatening (Davis & Whalen, 2001; Phelps, 2006; Whalen et al., 2001).”
A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder. (2005, methodology): “The paradigm was modeled after those used in previous studies.(8,24) Although it does not permit the acquisition of online behavioral data, we chose to use a passive viewing paradigm because it has been found to be associated with relatively robust amygdala responses.”
The influence of the fear facial expression on prosocial responding (2007, background): “The emphasis in such studies is typically on the extent to which the fear expression signals the presence of a threat in the environment (e.g., Dimberg & O¨ hman, 1996; Whalen, Shin, McInerney, Fischer, Wright, & Rauch, 1998; Williams, McGlone, Abbott, & Mattingley, 2005).”
Applying the Theory of Affective Intelligence to Support for Authoritarian Policies and Parties (2019, background): “The evidence from neuroscience on the generation of such answers is that they are differentially, not sequentially, determined (Paulus et al., 2010; Whalen et al., 2004, 2001).”
Two Mechanisms for Simulating Other Minds (2011, background): “And observing others experience fear activates regions such as the amygdala (Whalen et al., 2001), a region also involved in the subjective experience of fear and anxiety.”
The effects of fear and anger facial expressions on approach- and avoidance-related behaviors. (2005, background): “The fear expression, in contrast, is thought to signal the presence of some threat other than the expresser, perhaps alerting the perceiver to danger in the environment (Adolphs, Russell, & Tranel, 1999; Breiter et al., 1996; Morris et al., 1996; Whalen et al., 2001 ).”