Hemispheric asymmetry for affective stimulus processing in healthy subjects--a fMRI study.

BACKGROUND: While hemispheric specialization of language processing is well established, lateralization of emotion processing is still under debate. Several conflicting hypotheses have been proposed, including right hemisphere hypothesis, valence asymmetry hypothesis and region-specific lateralizati...

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Main Authors: Esther Beraha, Jonathan Eggers, Catherine Hindi Attar, Stefan Gutwinski, Florian Schlagenhauf, Meline Stoy, Philipp Sterzer, Thorsten Kienast, Andreas Heinz, Felix Bermpohl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3466188?pdf=render