The human amygdala plays an important role in gaze monitoring: A PET study

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 779-783

  Kawashima, Ryuta ^a,b   Sugiura, Motoaki ^a   Kato, Takashi ^c   Nakamura, Akinori ^c   Hatano, Kentaro ^c   Ito, Kengo ^c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kojima, Shozo ^d   Nakamura, Katsuki ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Telecommun Advancement Org Japan   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Gaze direction discrimination; PET; Regional cerebral blood flow; Social contact

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032924128     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.4.779     Document Type: Article

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