Title |
Culture but not gender modulates amygdala activation during explicit emotion recognition
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, May 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-13-54 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Birgit Derntl, Ute Habel, Simon Robinson, Christian Windischberger, Ilse Kryspin-Exner, Ruben C Gur, Ewald Moser |
Abstract |
Mounting evidence indicates that humans have significant difficulties in understanding emotional expressions from individuals of different ethnic backgrounds, leading to reduced recognition accuracy and stronger amygdala activation. However, the impact of gender on the behavioral and neural reactions during the initial phase of cultural assimilation has not been addressed. Therefore, we investigated 24 Asians students (12 females) and 24 age-matched European students (12 females) during an explicit emotion recognition task, using Caucasian facial expressions only, on a high-field MRI scanner. |
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Italy | 2 | 29% |
Norway | 1 | 14% |
Mexico | 1 | 14% |
United States | 1 | 14% |
Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
Scientists | 2 | 29% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 4 | 3% |
Italy | 2 | 1% |
United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
Australia | 1 | <1% |
Austria | 1 | <1% |
Canada | 1 | <1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 126 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 22% |
Student > Bachelor | 20 | 14% |
Researcher | 18 | 13% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 11% |
Student > Master | 13 | 9% |
Other | 22 | 16% |
Unknown | 19 | 14% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 62 | 45% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 9% |
Neuroscience | 12 | 9% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 8% |
Computer Science | 6 | 4% |
Other | 12 | 9% |
Unknown | 22 | 16% |