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From: Enhanced bodily states of fear facilitates bias perception of fearful faces

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Experimental procedure during fMRI scanning. Inside the fMRI scanner, the bodily imagery task required participants to view a somatotopic map that flickered twice during an 8-s period with a 4-s cycle. Participants were instructed to imagine the bodily sensation depicted by the somatotopic pattern. The somatotopic maps were representative sensation maps for fear or disgust generated by averaging the sensation patterns recorded in subjects after watching video clips containing fearful or disgusting stimuli in our previous study. After the bodily imagery task, a face with a morphed facial expression between fear and disgust appeared for 2 s. In this two-alternative forced-choice task, participants were given 4 s to classify the expression as fearful or disgusted

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