@article{f34464d71812400abcd6c150b5296761,
title = "The role of human basolateral amygdala in ambiguous social threat perception",
abstract = "Previous studies have shown that the amygdala (AMG) plays a role in how affective signals are processed. Animal research has allowed this role to be better understood and has assigned to the basolateral amygdala (BLA) an important role in threat perception. Here we show that, when passively exposed to bodily threat signals during a facial expressions recognition task, humans with bilateral BLA damage but with a functional central-medial amygdala (CMA) have a profound deficit in ignoring task-irrelevant bodily threat signals.",
keywords = "Amygdala, Basolateral amygdala, Body emotion expressions, Emotion, Urbach-Wiethe disease",
author = "{De Gelder}, Beatrice and David Terburg and Barak Morgan and Ruud Hortensius and Stein, {Dan J.} and {van Honk}, Jack",
note = "Funding Information: B.d.G. and R.H. were partly funded by the project TANGO. The project TANGO acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission , under FET-Open grant number: 249858 . B.d.G. has also received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/ERC grant agreement number 295673 . The work in this paper was supported by grants from the Hope For Depression Research Foundation (HDRF: RGA # 9-015 ), the Netherlands Society of Scientific Research (Brain and Cognition: # 056 24-010 ), the South African MRC/DST Professional Development Program , and the University of Cape Town (Brain Behavior Initiative). Development of the MacBrain Face Stimulus Set was overseen by Nim Tottenham and supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Early Experience and Brain Development. Please contact Nim Tottenham at
[email protected] for more information concerning the stimulus set. ",
year = "2014",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1016/j.cortex.2013.12.010",
language = "English",
volume = "52",
pages = "28--34",
journal = "Cortex",
issn = "0010-9452",
publisher = "Masson SpA",
number = "1",
}