Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury
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Huntington's disease can particularly affect people's recognition of disgust from facial expressions, and functional neuroimaging research has demonstrated that facial expressions of disgust consistently engage different brain areas (insula and putamen) than other facial expressions. However, it is not known whether these particular brain areas process only facial signals of disgust or disgust signals from multiple modalities. Here we describe evidence, from a patient with insula and putamen damage, for a neural system for recognizing social signals of disgust from multiple modalities.
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- Authors
- Calder, A. J., Keane, J., Manes, F., Antoun, N., & Young, A. W.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- Addenbrooke's Hospital (GB)
- University of York (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Calder, Andrew J.
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2000-11
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1077-1078
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- OpenAlex
- W1499778067
- Cited by
- 850
- References
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- FWCI
- 9.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Keywords
- disgust, facial expressions, insula, putamen, Huntington's disease, brain injury, social cognition
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Injuries, Caudate Nucleus, Emotions, Facial Expression, Globus Pallidus, Humans, Huntington Disease, Male, Nonverbal Communication, Putamen, Recognition, Psychology
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