Effects of Gaze on Amygdala Sensitivity to Anger and Fear Faces
SciencePublished 6 June 2003
Reginald B. Adams, Heather L. Gordon, Abigail A. Baird, Nalini Ambady, Robert E. Kleck
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The amygdala is thought to be part of a neural system responsive to potential threat and its well-documented sensitivity to fear faces is consistent with this, but there is paucity of evidence for a similar involvement of the amygdala in the processing of fear faces.
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The amygdala is thought to be part of a neural system responsive to potential threat ( [1][1] ). Consistent with this is the amygdala's well-documented sensitivity to fear faces. What is puzzling, however, is the paucity of evidence for a similar involvement of the amygdala in the processing of
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