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What does the amygdala contribute to social cognition
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The amygdala has received intense recent attention from neuroscientists investigating its function at the molecular, cellular, systems, cognitive, and clinical level. It clearly contributes to processing emotionally and socially relevant information, yet a unifying description and computational account have been lacking. The difficulty of tying together the various studies stems in part from the sheer diversity of approaches and species studied, in part from the amygdala's inherent heterogeneity in terms of its component nuclei, and in part because different investigators have simply been interested in different topics. Yet, a synthesis now seems close at hand in combining new results from social neuroscience with data from neuroeconomics and reward learning. The amygdala processes a psychological stimulus dimension related to saliency or relevance; mechanisms have been identified to link it to processing unpredictability; and insights from reward learning have situated it within a network of structures that include the prefrontal cortex and the ventral striatum in processing the current value of stimuli. These aspects help to clarify the amygdala's contributions to recognizing emotion from faces, to social behavior toward conspecifics, and to reward learning and instrumental behavior.
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- Authors
- Adolphs, R.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Adolphs, Ralph
- ORCID
- Adolphs, Ralph
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 1191
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 42-61
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- PMC
- PMC2871162
- OpenAlex
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- FWCI
- 4.51
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- journal article
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- en
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Funders
- American Psychological Association
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080721)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (P01NS019632)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- amygdala, social cognition, emotional salience, unpredictability, reward learning, neuroeconomics, prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum, facial emotion recognition, social behavior, instrumental behavior
- MeSH terms
- Amygdala, Cognition, Emotions, Fear, Humans, Learning, Reward
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