A role for somatosensory cortices in the visual recognition of emotion as revealed by three-dimensional lesion mapping

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 2683-2690

  Adolphs, Ralph ^a,c   Damasio, Hanna ^a,b   Tranel, Daniel ^a   Cooper, Greg ^a   Damasio, Antonio R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; Faces; Human; Simulation; Social; Somatic; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034175528     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-07-02683.2000     Document Type: Article

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