Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6835, 2001, Pages 305-309

  Anderson, Adam K ^a,c   Phelps, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT MONITORING; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

STIMULI;

NEUROLOGY;

ADULT; AFFECT; ALERTNESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; AVERSION; AWARENESS; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPUTERS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035902079     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35077083     Document Type: Article

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