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SUBMITTER: Piech RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3192286 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Piech Richard M RM McHugo Maureen M Smith Stephen D SD Dukic Mildred S MS Van Der Meer Joost J Abou-Khalil Bassel B Most Steven B SB Zald David H DH
Neuropsychologia 20110811 12
The importance of cues signaling reward, threat or danger would suggest that they receive processing privileges in the neural systems underlying perception and attention. Previous research has documented enhanced processing of motivationally salient cues, and has pointed to the amygdala as a candidate neural structure underlying the enhancements. In the current study, we examined whether the amygdala was necessary for this emotional modulation of attention to occur. Patients with unilateral amyg ...[more]