Figure 2.

Explicit and implicit processing of fearful faces in left and right amygdala. A. The voxel‐wise analysis showed that explicitly perceived, that is, nonmasked, fearful faces activated the left amygdala, whereas implicitly perceived, that is, masked, fearful faces activated the right amygdala. B. The ROI analyses indicated that the explicitly perceived fearful relative to neutral faces (P = 0.001) elicited significantly stronger activation in the left amygdala, whereas implicitly perceived fearful relative to neutral faces elicited significantly stronger activation in the right amygdala (P = 0.05). C. Explicitly perceived negative emotionality (fearful vs. neutral) in the left amygdala was positively correlated with fearful MMN amplitudes (r = 0.58, P = 0.008), whereas the implicitly perceived emotionality in the right amygdala was negatively correlated with fearful MMN amplitudes (r = −0.47, P = 0.009). Fisher r‐to‐z transformation indicated that amygdala reactivity to explicitly and implicitly perceived emotionality independently predicted the fearful MMN amplitudes (Δz = 4.31, P < 0.01).