Neural activities during the Processing of unattended and unseen emotional faces: a voxel-wise Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: Voxel-wise meta-analyses of task-evoked regional activity were conducted for healthy individuals during the unconscious processing of emotional and neutral faces with an aim to examine whether and how different experimental paradigms influenced brain activation patterns. Studies were categorized into sensory and attentional unawareness paradigms. Thirty-four fMRI studies including 883 healthy participants were identified. Across experimental paradigms, unaware emotional faces elicited stronger activation of the limbic system, striatum, inferior frontal gyrus, insula and the temporal lobe, compared to unaware neutral faces. Crucially, in attentional unawareness paradigms, unattended emotional faces elicited a right-lateralized increased activation (i.e., right amygdala, right temporal pole)

SUBMITTER: Qiu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9581832 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature