A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala

Mormann, Florian; Dubois, Julien; Kornblith, Simon; Milosavljevic, Milica; Cerf, Moran; Ison, Matias; Tsuchiya, Naotsugu; Kraskov, Alexander; Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian; Adolphs, Ralph; Fried, Itzhak; Koch, Christof

doi:10.1038/nn.2899

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A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala

Mormann, Florian;
Dubois, Julien;
Kornblith, Simon;
Milosavljevic, Milica;
Cerf, Moran;
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The amygdala is important in emotion, but it remains unknown whether it is specialized for certain stimulus categories. We analyzed responses recorded from 489 single neurons in the amygdalae of 41 neurosurgical patients and found a categorical selectivity for pictures of animals in the right amygdala. This selectivity appeared to be independent of emotional valence or arousal and may reflect the importance that animals held throughout our evolutionary past.

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MEDIAL TEMPORAL-LOBE; SINGLE NEURONS; MONKEY; EMOTION

제목: A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala

저자: Mormann, Florian; Dubois, Julien; Kornblith, Simon; Milosavljevic, Milica; Cerf, Moran; Ison, Matias; Tsuchiya, Naotsugu; Kraskov, Alexander; Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian; Adolphs, Ralph; Fried, Itzhak; Koch, Christof

DOI: 10.1038/nn.2899

발행일: 2011-10

유형: Article

저널명: Nature Neuroscience

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