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Preferring one taste over another without recognizing eitherRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:860-1. 2005..The pattern of brain damage responsible for the dissociation suggests that reliable behavioral choice among tastes can occur in the absence of the gustatory cortex necessary for taste recognition...
The biology of fearRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA Electronic address
Curr Biol 23:R79-93. 2013..Finally, we should aim even to incorporate the conscious experience of being afraid, reinvigorating the study of feelings across species...- Reduced social preferences in autism: evidence from charitable donationsAlice Lin
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
J Neurodev Disord 4:8. 2012..abstract:.. - Changes in cortical morphology resulting from long-term amygdala damageAaron D Boes
Department of Pediatric Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:588-95. 2012.... - A mechanism for impaired fear recognition after amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nature 433:68-72. 2005..This finding provides a mechanism to explain the amygdala's role in fear recognition, and points to new approaches for the possible rehabilitation of patients with defective emotion perception... - Impaired judgments of sadness but not happiness following bilateral amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:453-62. 2004..The findings suggest that the amygdala's role in processing of emotional facial expressions encompasses multiple negatively valenced emotions, including fear and sadness... - How do we know the minds of others? Domain-specificity, simulation, and enactive social cognitionRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Brain Res 1079:25-35. 2006..Experiments from our own laboratory point to the amygdala as one structure that is critically involved in such processes... - Amygdala damage impairs emotional memory for gist but not details of complex stimuliRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:512-8. 2005..The data support a model whereby the amygdala focuses processing resources on gist, possibly accounting for features of traumatic memories and eyewitness testimony in real life... - Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuliRalph Adolphs
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, HSS 228 77, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Prog Brain Res 156:363-78. 2006..Finally, we argue that the term emotion be broadened to include increased attention to bodily responses and their representation in cortex... - Fear, faces, and the human amygdalaRalph Adolphs
Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 18:166-72. 2008..A large current research effort extends the amygdala's putative role to a number of psychiatric illnesses... - What does the amygdala contribute to social cognition?Ralph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1191:42-61. 2010..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... - Manifestation of ocular-muscle EMG contamination in human intracranial recordingsChristopher K Kovach
Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Neuroimage 54:213-33. 2011..We conclude that eye movement-related contamination should be ruled out when reporting high gamma responses in human intracranial recordings, especially those obtained near anterior and medial temporal lobe... - Lesion mapping of cognitive control and value-based decision making in the prefrontal cortexJan Gläscher
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:14681-6. 2012..By contrast, regions in the ventral PFC were required for decision-making. These findings provide detailed causal evidence for a remarkable functional-anatomical specificity in the human PFC... - Anterior prefrontal cortex contributes to action selection through tracking of recent reward trendsChristopher K Kovach
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 32:8434-42. 2012.... - Personal space regulation by the human amygdalaDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:1226-7. 2009..The amygdala may be required to trigger the strong emotional reactions normally following personal space violations, thus regulating interpersonal distance in humans... - Decoding face information in time, frequency and space from direct intracranial recordings of the human brainNaotsugu Tsuchiya
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e3892. 2008.... - Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: a 3-D lesion studyRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
Emotion 2:23-51. 2002..Furthermore, there were regions in the left and right temporal lobes that contributed disproportionately to recognition of emotion from faces or prosody, respectively... - Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligenceJan Gläscher
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 61:681-91. 2009..Our findings provide comprehensive lesion maps of intelligence factors, and make specific recommendations for interpretation and application of the WAIS to the study of intelligence in health and disease... - Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdalaNaotsugu Tsuchiya
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 12:1224-5. 2009..We conclude that the amygdala is not essential for early stages of fear processing but, instead, modulates recognition and social judgment... - Damage to association fiber tracts impairs recognition of the facial expression of emotionCarissa L Philippi
Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Neurosci 29:15089-99. 2009..Our findings demonstrate the key role of white matter association tracts in the recognition of the facial expression of emotion and identify specific tracts that may be most critical... - Memories for emotional autobiographical events following unilateral damage to medial temporal lobeTony W Buchanan
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Brain 129:115-27. 2006..This finding is consistent with the notion that the right, but not the left, anteromedial temporal lobe is involved in the retrieval of negatively valenced, high-intensity memories... - Abnormal use of facial information in high-functioning autismMichael L Spezio
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228 77, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
J Autism Dev Disord 37:929-39. 2007..These findings provide a novel quantitative assessment of how people with autism utilize information in faces when making social judgments... - Emotional arousal in agenesis of the corpus callosumLynn K Paul
California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, CA 91125, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 61:47-56. 2006.... - Detestable or marvelous? Neuroanatomical correlates of character judgmentsKatie E Croft
Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, IA, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:1789-801. 2010.... - Economic games quantify diminished sense of guilt in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortexIan Krajbich
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 29:2188-92. 2009..Instead, the findings argue for a specific insensitivity to guilt, an abnormality that we suggest characterizes a key contribution made by the VMPFC to social behavior... - Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgementsMichael Koenigs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nature 446:908-11. 2007..These findings indicate that, for a selective set of moral dilemmas, the VMPC is critical for normal judgements of right and wrong. The findings support a necessary role for emotion in the generation of those judgements... - Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substratesAlice Lin
California Institute of Technology, Computations and Neural Systems, MC 136 93 Pasadena, CA 91125 7700, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7:274-81. 2012..Taken together, the findings support the hypothesis that shared anatomical substrates are involved in the computation of both monetary and social rewards... - Insensitivity to social reputation in autismKeise Izuma
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:17302-7. 2011..The results argue that people with autism lack the ability to take into consideration what others think of them and provide further support for specialized neural systems mediating the effects of social reputation... - Emotional autobiographical memories in amnesic patients with medial temporal lobe damageTony W Buchanan
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Neurosci 25:3151-60. 2005..The amygdala and surrounding cortices of the medial temporal lobe may be a necessary component in the neural circuitry necessary for vivid recollection of unpleasant emotional events... - A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdalaFlorian Mormann
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 14:1247-9. 2011..This selectivity appeared to be independent of emotional valence or arousal and may reflect the importance that animals held throughout our evolutionary past... - Dominance attributions following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortexMatthew S Karafin
University of Iowa, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1796-804. 2004.... - Distinct face-processing strategies in parents of autistic childrenRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Curr Biol 18:1090-3. 2008.... - Contributions of the amygdala to reward expectancy and choice signals in human prefrontal cortexAlan N Hampton
Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 55:545-55. 2007..These findings support a critical role for the human amygdala in establishing expected reward representations in PFC, which in turn may be used to guide behavioral choice... - A neuroanatomical dissociation for emotion induced by musicErica L Johnsen
Department of Neurology, Division of Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 72:24-33. 2009..The findings provide evidence for a double dissociation between feeling emotions and autonomic responses to emotions, in response to music stimuli... - Cortical regions for judgments of emotions and personality traits from point-light walkersAndrea S Heberlein
University of Iowa, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 16:1143-58. 2004..These findings suggest that attributions of emotional states and personality traits are accomplished by partially dissociable neural systems... - Anteromedial temporal lobe damage blocks startle modulation by fear and disgustTony W Buchanan
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Behav Neurosci 118:429-37. 2004..The findings suggest that potentiation of the ASR by disgust and fear depends on the integrity of the anteromedial temporal lobe... - Electrophysiological correlates of reward prediction error recorded in the human prefrontal cortexHiroyuki Oya
Department of Neurosurgery and Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:8351-6. 2005..The finding implicates this brain region in the acquisition of choice bias by means of a continuous updating of expectations about reward and punishment... - Orienting to social stimuli differentiates social cognitive impairment in autism and schizophreniaNoah Sasson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3366, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:2580-8. 2007..Impairments in social orienting are discussed within the context of evidence suggesting the role of the amygdala in orienting to emotionally meaningful information... - Looking at other people: mechanisms for social perception revealed in subjects with focal amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Novartis Found Symp 278:146-59; discussion 160-4, 216-21. 2007..Ongoing studies in our laboratory examine face-to-face social interactions with real people in an attempt to link the above impairments in the laboratory to the dysfunctional social cognition seen in everyday life... - Impaired fixation to eyes following amygdala damage arises from abnormal bottom-up attentionDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:3392-8. 2010.... - The social brain: neural basis of social knowledgeRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology Caltech, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 60:693-716. 2009..Here I provide a broad survey of the key abilities, processes, and ways in which to relate these to data from cognitive neuroscience... - Dynamic construction of stimulus values in the ventromedial prefrontal cortexAlison Harris
Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e21074. 2011.... - Evidence for preserved emotional memory in normal older personsNatalie L Denburg
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Iowa City, 52242, US
Emotion 3:239-53. 2003..The results raise the interesting possibility that aging has a differential effect on hippocampal versus amygdala function... - A specific role for the human amygdala in olfactory memoryTony W Buchanan
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Learn Mem 10:319-25. 2003..Taken together, the data provide neuropsychological evidence that the human amygdala is essential for olfactory memory... - Impaired recognition of social emotions following amygdala damageRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:1264-74. 2002..The results also provide further support for the idea that some of the impairments in social cognition seen in patients with autism may result from dysfunction of the amygdala... - Impaired memory retrieval correlates with individual differences in cortisol response but not autonomic responseTony W Buchanan
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Learn Mem 13:382-7. 2006..These results suggest that individual differences in cortisol reactivity affect memory retrieval performance, and help to explain the differential effects of stress on memory... - Neural systems responding to degrees of uncertainty in human decision-makingMing Hsu
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 228-77, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Science 310:1680-3. 2005..Neurological subjects with orbitofrontal lesions were insensitive to the level of ambiguity and risk in behavioral choices. These data suggest a general neural circuit responding to degrees of uncertainty, contrary to decision theory... - The influence of autonomic arousal and semantic relatedness on memory for emotional wordsTony W Buchanan
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 61:26-33. 2006..Relatedness confers an advantage to memory (as in the school-words), but the combination of relatedness and arousal (as in the taboo words) results in the best memory performance... - Analysis of face gaze in autism using "Bubbles"Michael L Spezio
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuropsychologia 45:144-51. 2007..The findings provide novel detail to the abnormal way in which people with autism look at faces, an impairment that likely influences all subsequent face processing... - Spared ability to recognise fear from static and moving whole-body cues following bilateral amygdala damageAnthony P Atkinson
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Neuropsychologia 45:2772-82. 2007..Thus, whatever the role of the amygdala in processing whole-body fear cues, it is apparently not necessary for the normal recognition of fear from either static or dynamic body expressions... - The social brain in psychiatric and neurological disordersDaniel P Kennedy
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 16:559-72. 2012..We suggest that the social brain, and its dysfunction and recovery, must be understood not in terms of specific structures, but rather in terms of their interaction in large-scale networks... - Perspective distortion from interpersonal distance is an implicit visual cue for social judgments of facesRonnie Bryan
Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e45301. 2012..These results demonstrate a novel facial cue influencing a range of social judgments as a function of interpersonal distance, an effect that may be processed implicitly... - Becoming a better person: temporal remoteness biases autobiographical memories for moral eventsJessica R Escobedo
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Emotion 10:511-8. 2010..The effect was independent of chronological age, ethnicity, gender or personality, arguing for a general emotional bias in how we construct our moral autobiography... - Conceptual challenges and directions for social neuroscienceRalph Adolphs
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Neuron 65:752-67. 2010..It may well be that social neuroscience in the near future will give us an entirely new view of who we are, how we evolved, and what might be in store for the future of our species... - Intact bilateral resting-state networks in the absence of the corpus callosumJ Michael Tyszka
Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 31:15154-62. 2011..The results argue that a normal complement of resting-state networks and intact functional coupling between the hemispheres can emerge in the absence of the corpus callosum, favoring the second over the first possibility listed above... - The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fearJustin S Feinstein
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Curr Biol 21:34-8. 2011..The findings support the conclusion that the human amygdala plays a pivotal role in triggering a state of fear and that the absence of such a state precludes the experience of fear itself... - Altered experience of emotion following bilateral amygdala damageDaniel Tranel
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Cogn Neuropsychiatry 11:219-32. 2006..Bauman, Lavenex, Mason, Capitanio, & Amaral, 2004a), and they provide valuable insights into the emotional life of an individual with complete bilateral amygdala damage... 
Social cognition: feeling voices to recognize emotionsRalph Adolphs
Division of Humanities and Social Science and Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Curr Biol 20:R1071-2. 2010....- Electrophysiological responses in the human amygdala discriminate emotion categories of complex visual stimuliHiroyuki Oya
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Neurosci 22:9502-12. 2002.... - Agenesis of the corpus callosum: genetic, developmental and functional aspects of connectivityLynn K Paul
California Institute of Technology, MC 228 77 Pasadena, California 91125, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 8:287-99. 2007..The study of AgCC could provide insight into the integrated cerebral functioning of healthy brains, and may offer a model for understanding certain psychiatric illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism... - Cognitive neuroscience of human social behaviourRalph Adolphs
Deparment of Neurology, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 4:165-78. 2003..No less important are the links that are also being established across disciplines to understand social behaviour, as neuroscientists, social psychologists, anthropologists, ethologists and philosophers forge new collaborations... - Is the human amygdala specialized for processing social information?Ralph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 985:326-40. 2003..While the issue is unresolved, future experiments could provide additional support... - Selective effects of triazolam on memory for emotional, relative to neutral, stimuli: differential effects on gist versus detailTony W Buchanan
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Behav Neurosci 117:517-25. 2003..This pattern of performance is similar to that seen in patients with amygdala damage. Results suggest an effect of GABAergic neurotransmission at the level of the amygdala on memory modulation... - Amygdala damage impairs eye contact during conversations with real peopleMichael L Spezio
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
J Neurosci 27:3994-7. 2007..These novel findings from real social interactions are consistent with an hypothesized role for the amygdala in autism and the approach taken here opens up new directions for quantifying social behavior in humans... - Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognition from scenes only when they contain facial expressionsRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:1281-9. 2003..Bilateral amygdala damage thus disproportionately impairs recognition of certain emotions from complex visual stimuli when subjects utilize information from facial expressions... - EMPATH: a neural network that categorizes facial expressionsMatthew N Dailey
Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego 92093, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 14:1158-73. 2002..We thus explain many of the seemingly complex psychological phenomena related to facial expression perception as natural consequences of the tasks' implementations in the brain... - Processing of the arousal of subliminal and supraliminal emotional stimuli by the human amygdalaJan Gläscher
NeuroImage Nord, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, D 20246 Hamburg, Germany
J Neurosci 23:10274-82. 2003.... - Trust in the brainRalph Adolphs
Nat Neurosci 5:192-3. 2002 - Neuroanatomical substrates of social cognition dysfunction in autismKevin Pelphrey
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27710, USA
Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev 10:259-71. 2004..We conclude with a discussion of several potential future directions in the cognitive neuroscience of social deficits in autism... - Amygdala damage eliminates monetary loss aversionBenedetto De Martino
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:3788-92. 2010..The findings suggest that the amygdala plays a key role in generating loss aversion by inhibiting actions with potentially deleterious outcomes... - Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledgeAndrea S Heberlein
Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:7487-91. 2004.... - Dissociable neural systems for recognizing emotionsRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Brain Cogn 52:61-9. 2003..Thus the retrieval of knowledge regarding emotions draws upon widely distributed and partly distinct sets of neural structures, depending on the attributes of the stimulus... - Neural systems for recognizing emotionRalph Adolphs
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, 200 Hawkins Drive, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 52242, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 12:169-77. 2002..Two important mechanisms for recognition of emotions are the construction of a simulation of the observed emotion in the perceiver, and the modulation of sensory cortices via top-down influences... - Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: psychological and neurological mechanismsRalph Adolphs
University of Iowa College of Medicine, USA
Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 1:21-62. 2002..Although recent studies have provided a wealth of detail regarding these mechanisms in the adult human brain, investigations are also being extended to nonhuman primates, to infants, and to patients with psychiatric disorders... - Amygdala damage impairs emotion recognition from musicNathalie Gosselin
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, CP 6128, Succ Centre Ville, Montreal, Que, Canada
Neuropsychologia 45:236-44. 2007..The use of tempo and mode cues in distinguishing happy from sad music was also spared in S.M. Thus, the amygdala appears to be necessary for emotional processing of music rather than the perceptual processing itself... - Emotion and consciousnessNaotsugu Tsuchiya
California Institute of Technology, HSS 228 77, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 11:158-67. 2007..The intersection of consciousness and emotion is ripe for experimental investigation, and we outline possible examples for future studies... - Investigating the cognitive neuroscience of social behaviorRalph Adolphs
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa College of Medicine, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Neuropsychologia 41:119-26. 2003..These issues can be addressed, in part, by giving theory and experiment equal time, and by fostering an interdisciplinary approach that includes neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, anthropology and allied disciplines... - Perception of socially relevant stimuli in schizophreniaNirav O Bigelow
University of Iowa, Department of Psychiatry, United States
Schizophr Res 83:257-67. 2006..The findings point towards circumscribed domains of impaired social cognition in schizophrenia and suggest specific further hypotheses about the neural dysfunction that may underlie them... - Emotional visionRalph Adolphs
Nat Neurosci 7:1167-8. 2004 - Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortexNathalie Gosselin
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brain 129:2585-92. 2006..These findings are consistent with a two-dimensional model of defensive responses to aversive stimuli, in which the PHC and the amygdala subserve different roles... - Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisionsHackjin Kim
Divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences and Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA corrected
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:18253-8. 2007..The findings support a model in which rapid, automatic engagement of the NAC conveys a preference signal to the OFC, which in turn is used to guide choice... - Reprint of: Impaired fixation to eyes following amygdala damage arises from abnormal bottom-up attentionDaniel P Kennedy
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, United States
Neuropsychologia 49:589-95. 2011.... - Analysis of single-unit responses to emotional scenes in human ventromedial prefrontal cortexHiroto Kawasaki
University of Iowa College of Medicine, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1509-18. 2005..The findings suggest sparse and widely distributed processing of emotional value in the prefrontal cortex, with a predominance of responses to aversive stimuli... - Cardiovascular and respiratory responses during musical mood inductionJoset A Etzel
Iowa State University, 2274 Howe Hall, Room 1620, VRAC, Ames, IA 50011 2274, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 61:57-69. 2006....
Research Grants
- NEUROANATOMICAL SUBSTRATES OF EMOTIONAL MEMORY IN HUMANSRalph Adolphs; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- EMOTIONAL MODULATION OF MEMORY BY THE HUMAN AMYGDALARalph Adolphs; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
- Towards an Endophenotype for Amygdala DysfunctionRalph Adolphs; Fiscal Year: 2010..Our stimuli and methods will be made available to researchers and clinicians studying mental illness, and will inform diagnosis as well as provide a basis for designing future interventions. ..