Unilateral amygdala lesions hamper attentional orienting triggered by gaze direction

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2593-2600

  Akiyama, Tomoko ^a,d   Kato, Motoichiro ^b   Muramatsu, Taro ^b   Umeda, Satoshi ^c   Saito, Fumie ^b   Kashima, Haruo ^b  

^a Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Komagino Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amygdala laterality; Arrow; Social cognition; Spatial cueing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CUES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 35148817967     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl166     Document Type: Article

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