Asymmetrical use of eye information from faces following unilateral amygdala damage

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-337

  Gosselin, Frédéric ^a   Spezio, Michael L ^b,c   Tranel, Daniel ^d   Adolphs, Ralph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Bubbles; Emotion; Faces; Fear

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; EYE; EYE FIXATION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; VISION;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; BRAIN DISEASES; EYE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79958852445     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq040     Document Type: Article

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