Year: 2004
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Studies in animals have implicated the amygdala in \nsocial and emotional information processing. Within the past \ndecade, the role of this structure has also been investigated in \nhumans, using a variety of techniques. Perhaps best explored is its \nfunction in social judgments about facial expressions, the focus \nof this review. Lesion studies, electrophysiology, and functional \nimaging have all been brought to bear on this topic, and these \napproaches have begun to sketch the processes whereby the amygdala \nlinks perceptual representations of emotional sensory stimuli \nwith the elicitation of behavioral and cognitive responses. These \nresponses, in turn, both guide social behavior and generate social \nknowledge. The chapter closes with a preview of future directions \nthat this line of research suggests.
Author: Ralph Adolphs
Language: German
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2127183764