Is the human amygdala specialized for processing social information?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 985, Issue , 2003, Pages 326-340

  Adolphs, Ralph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Amygdala; Emotion; Facial expression; Reduction; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0037279849     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07091.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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