The amygdala is located in the medial aspects of the temporal lobe. In spite of the fact that
the amygdala has been implicated in a variety of functions, ranging from attention to memory …

Emotional memory: What does the amygdala do? Page 1 Dispatch R311 Emotional memory:
What does the amygdala do? Elizabeth A. Phelps and Adam K. Anderson Recent studies of …

Recognition of facial expressions is critical to our appreciation of the social and physical
environment, with separate emotions having distinct facial expressions. Perception of fearful …

Electrophysiologic and lesion studies of animals increasingly implicate the amygdala in
aspects of emotional processing. Yet, the functions of the human amygdala remain poorly …

Substantial evidence suggests that a key distinction in the classification of human emotion is
that between an appetitive motivational system associated with positive or pleasant emotion …

We report four experiments investigating the perception of photographic quality continua of
interpolated (morphed') facial expressions derived from prototypes of the 6 emotions in the …

The hippocampus and its associated structures play a key role in human memory, yet the
underlying neuronal mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we report that during encoding …

The amygdalar complex is a medial temporal lobe structure in the brain which is widely
considered to be involved in the neural substrates of emotion. Selective bilateral damage to …

Previous functional imaging studies have demonstrated a number of discrete brain
structures that increase activity with noxious stimulation. Of the commonly identified central …

WE examined neural activity associated with selectively attending to subjective emotional
responses in a study where subjects viewed emotional picture sets. During picture viewing …