Emotion recognition is essential for social interaction and communication and is a capacity
in which the amygdala plays a central role. So far, neuroimaging results have been …

The amygdala is a key structure in a limbic circuit involved in the rapid and unconscious
processing of facial emotions. In the present study, the role of the amygdala in automatic …

Background The ability to recognize emotions in facial expressions relies on an extensive
neural network with the amygdala as the key node as has typically been demonstrated for …

Amygdala responses to emotional faces can be influenced by concomitant gaze direction.
As an explanation it has been suggested that the observer uses eye gaze as a cue to …

Background Human faces provide important signals in social interactions by inferring two
main types of information, individual identity and emotional expression. The ability to readily …

Functional neuroimaging studies have helped identify neural systems involved in cognitive
processing and more recently have indicated limbic activation to emotional stimuli. Some …

The amygdala has been consistently isolated as a key neural substrate for processing facial
displays of affect. Recent evidence from human lesion and functional neuroimaging studies …

Despite its importance as the prime method for non-invasive assessment of human brain
function, functional MRI (fMRI) was repeatedly challenged with regards to the validity of the …

We measured amygdala activity in human volunteers during rapid visual presentations of
fearful, happy, and neutral faces using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The …

Facial expressions of emotion elicit increased activity in the human amygdala. Such
increases are particularly evident for expressions that convey potential threat to the …