ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2021
Amygdala Activation in Cognitive Task fMRI Varies with Individual Differences in Cognitive Traits.
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- Large-Vessel Venous Signal Confounds Apparent Amygdala Activation in BOLD fMRI.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- "Dense Amygdala": Extensive Complex-valued Functional MRI of the Ventral and Medial Temporal Lobe during Passive Movie Watching in Three Individuals.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Adolescent cognitive control processing is associated with anxiety in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Disentangling large-scale brain dynamics and their links to behavior during the emotional face matching task.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Abnormalities in cognitive-related functional connectivity can be used to identify patients with schizophrenia and individuals in clinical high-risk.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- An Honest Reckoning With the Amygdala and Mental Illness.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality Is Associated with Increased Reactivity to Uncertain Threat in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis, Not the Amygdala.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neuroticism/negative emotionality is associated with increased reactivity to uncertain threat in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, not the amygdala.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Changing role of the amygdala in affective and cognitive traits between early and late adulthood.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Anxiety-Related Frontocortical Activity Is Associated With Dampened Stressor Reactivity in the Real World.Psychological science · 2022Article
- Impaired functional cortical networks in the theta frequency band of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder during auditory-cognitive processing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
The amygdala has been implicated in processing threat and learning fear. However, the amygdala also responds to motivationally relevant stimuli even in the absence of explicit emotional content. We investigated the relationship among amygdala activation, cognitive and emotional factors, and fMRI task data in participants from the Young Adult Human Connectome Project. We expected to see variation in amygdala activation that corresponded with variation in traits that could affect the salience of task related stimuli (i.e., internalizing symptoms and fearful faces). We found no relationship between amygdala activation during face viewing and emotion related traits. However, amygdala activation under working memory load was negatively correlated with fluid intelligence and reading level. There also was a negative relationship between task performance and activation in the amygdala. The observed relationship suggests that the role of amygdala is not limited to the processing of emotional content of incoming information but is instead related to salience, which can be influenced by individual differences.
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