• DOI:10.1162/089892902760807258
Corpus ID: 1505825

Impaired Recognition of Social Emotions following Amygdala Damage

@article{Adolphs2002ImpairedRO,
  title={Impaired Recognition of Social Emotions following Amygdala Damage},
  author={R. Adolphs and S. Baron-Cohen and D. Tranel},
  journal={Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience},
  year={2002},
  volume={14},
  pages={1264-1274}
}

R. Adolphs, S. Baron-Cohen, D. Tranel

Published 2002

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Lesion, functional imaging, and single-unit studies in human and nonhuman animals have demonstrated a role for the amygdala in processing stimuli with emotional and social significance. We investigated the recognition of a wide variety of facial expressions, including basic emotions (e.g., happiness, anger) and social emotions (e.g., guilt, admiration, flirtatiousness). Prior findings with a standardized set of stimuli indicated that recognition of social emotions can be signaled by the eye… CONTINUE READING

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