Implicit trustworthiness decisions: automatic coding of face properties in the human amygdala

AD Engell, JV Haxby, A Todorov - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
amygdala responds to face propertiesamygdala response to novel faces in individuals
better than their own judgments. In other words, individual judgments should predict amygdala

Fear, faces, and the human amygdala

R Adolphs - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Amygdala lesions impair the ability to seek out and make use of … faces, resulting in impaired
fear perception. Other studies in rats and humans revive earlier proposals that the amygdala

The human amygdala: an evolved system for relevance detection

D Sander, J Grafman, T Zalla - Reviews in the Neurosciences, 2003 - degruyter.com
… Moreover, several neuroimaging studies have confirmed the role of the amygdala in the
processing of fearful faces /24,29,68,69,77,81,83,98, 101,105/ and in fear conditioning /26/. A …

Neurons in the human amygdala selective for perceived emotion

S Wang, O Tudusciuc, AN Mamelak… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… within the human amygdala are selective for perceived emotion shown in faces and track …
neurons in the human amygdala selectively respond to whole faces compared with facial …

[HTML][HTML] The role of the amygdala in face perception and evaluation

A Todorov - Motivation and Emotion, 2012 - Springer
… , I argue that faces automatically evoke responses not only in these regions but also in the
amygdala. I also argue that (a) a key property of faces represented in the amygdala is their …

Robust selectivity for faces in the human amygdala in the absence of expressions

P Mende-Siedlecki, SC Verosky… - Journal of cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
… argue the amygdala should be accorded a central role in face processing. … face-selective
properties of the amygdala, we examine habituation across runs and compare it with other face-…

Human amygdala responses to fearful eyes

JS Morris, M deBonis, RJ Dolan - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
… responses in human amygdala. We used event-related fMRI to investigate whether eye or
mouth components of a fearful face are critical in evoking this increased amygdala activity. In …

[HTML][HTML] Single-unit responses selective for whole faces in the human amygdala

U Rutishauser, O Tudusciuc, D Neumann, AN Mamelak… - Current Biology, 2011 - cell.com
face was shown compared to when almost the entire face was shown. We suggest that the
human amygdala plays a predominant role in representing global information about faces, …

Threat, domain-specificity and the human amygdala

J Yang, PSF Bellgowan, A Martin - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
human amygdala responds strongly to human faces, especially when depicting negative
emotions. The extent to which the amygdala … negative, neutral, and positive faces, animals, and …

Human amygdala responses during presentation of happy and neutral faces: correlations with state anxiety

LH Somerville, H Kim, T Johnstone, AL Alexander… - Biological …, 2004 - Elsevier
faces, as well as an interleaved fixation baseline condition. Previous behavioral research
has demonstrated that the interpretation of neutral facesamygdala response to neutral faces, …