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Is the Human Amygdala Specialized for Processing Social Information?
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A bstract : A number of studies in humans and other animals has confirmed the amygdala's role in modulating cognition and behavior on the basis of a stimulus' motivational, emotional, and social atttributes. This raises the question of how these attributes are related: is social information processing reducible to motivational processing? Some recent data suggest the possibility that the amygdala's primitive function may be motivational processing that is domain‐general, but that its function in primates, and especially humans, may have evolved to process social information specifically. While the issue is unresolved, future experiments could provide additional support.
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“The affective pathway described in dual-systems models is most closely associated with a network of limbic and paralimbic areas involved in emotion- and reward-related processing, most notably the ventral striatum (which subsumes the nucleus accumbens), but also the orbitofrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and superior temporal sulcus”
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Metadata
- Authors
- ADOLPHS, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Iowa (US)
- Corresponding author
- ADOLPHS, RALPH
- ORCID
- ADOLPHS, RALPH
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-04
- Volume
- 985
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 326-340
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W1966033532
- Cited by
- 186
- References
- 47
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- FWCI
- 1.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- amygdala, social information processing, emotions, domain specificity, primate cognition
- MeSH terms
- Amygdala, Animals, Emotions, Humans, Motivation, Organ Specificity, Primates, Social Behavior, Species Specificity
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