The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity.
Abstract
The human amygdala is a key structure for processing emotional facial expressions, but it remains unclear what aspects of emotion are processed. We investigated this question with three different approaches: behavioural analysis of 3 amygdala lesion patients, neuroimaging of 19 healthy adults, and single-neuron recordings in 9 neurosurgical patients. The lesion patients showed a shift in behavioural sensitivity to fear, and amygdala BOLD...
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Title
The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity.
Published Date
Apr 21, 2017
Journal
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
14821 - 14821
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