Attentional capture by emotional stimuli is preserved in patients with amygdala lesions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3314-3319

  Piech, Richard M ^a   McHugo, Maureen ^a   Smith, Stephen D ^b   Dukic, Mildred S ^a   Van Der Meer, Joost ^a   Abou Khalil, Bassel ^a   Most, Steven B ^c   Zald, David H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Emotion; Lesion study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; BRAIN INJURIES; CUES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 80053578493     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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