Discriminating emotional faces without primary visual cortices involves the right amygdala
- 12 December 2004
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 8 (1) , 24-25
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1364
Abstract
Destruction of the brain's primary visual areas leads to blindness of cortical origin. Here we report on a subject who, after bilateral destruction of his visual cortices and ensuing cortical blindness, could nevertheless correctly guess the type of emotional facial expression being displayed, but could not guess other types of emotional or non-emotional stimuli. Functional magnetic resonance imaging showed activation of the right amygdala during the unconscious processing of emotionally expressive faces.Keywords
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