Emotional cognition without awareness after unilateral temporal lobectomy in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2000, Pages

  Kubota, Yasutaka ^a   Sato, Wataru ^a   Murai, Toshiya ^b   Toichi, Motomi ^c   Ikeda, Akio ^a   Sengoku, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Awareness; Backward masking; EDA; Emotion; Emotional visual stimuli; Unilateral temporal lobectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; EMOTIONAL COGNITION; EMOTIONAL VALENCE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL AFFECTIVE PICTURE SYSTEM; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECORTICATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL DECORTICATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA DISPLAY; EMOTIONS; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0034293135     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-19-j0002.2000     Document Type: Article

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