Lateralized Interactive Social Content and Valence Processing within the Human Amygdala

In the past, the amygdala has generally been conceptualized as a fear-processing module. Recently, however, it has been proposed to respond to all stimuli that are relevant with respect to the current needs, goals and values of an individual. This raises the question of whether the human amygdala ma...

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Main Authors: Pascal eVrticka, David eSander, Patrik eVuilleumier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00358/full