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 …
… 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 …
… within the humanamygdala are selective for perceived emotion shown in faces and track … neurons in the humanamygdala selectively respond to whole faces compared with facial …
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 …
… 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-…
JS Morris, M deBonis, RJ Dolan - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
… responses in humanamygdala. 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 …
… face was shown compared to when almost the entire face was shown. We suggest that the humanamygdala plays a predominant role in representing global information about faces, …
J Yang, PSF Bellgowan, A Martin - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
… humanamygdala responds strongly to humanfaces, especially when depicting negative emotions. The extent to which the amygdala … negative, neutral, and positive faces, animals, and …
… faces, as well as an interleaved fixation baseline condition. Previous behavioral research has demonstrated that the interpretation of neutral faces … amygdala response to neutral faces, …