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SUBMITTER: Piech RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2949448 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuropsychologia 20100714 12
Previous research has indicated that the amygdala is a critical neural substrate of the emotional modulation of attention. However, a recent case study suggests that the amygdala may not be essential for all types of emotion-attention interactions. In order to test this hypothesis, we assessed the visual-search performance of patients with unilateral amygdala lesions, matched controls, and medication-matched epilepsy patients with intact amygdalae. All participants completed a visual-search task ...[more]