Faces and voices are of high importance in interpersonal communication, and there are
notable parallels between face and voice perception. However, these parallels do not sit …

Modern medicine has progressed in parallel with the advancement of biochemistry,
anatomy, and physiology. By using the tools of modern medicine, the physician today can …

There is disagreement in the literature about the exact nature of the phenomenon of
empathy. There are emotional, cognitive, and conditioning views, applying in varying …

The present meta-analysis aimed to clarify whether deficits in emotion recognition in
psychopathy are restricted to certain emotions and modalities or whether they are more …

Here we provide a review of the animal and human literature concerning the role of the
amygdala in fear conditioning, considering its potential influence over autonomic and …

Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the
occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices …

Although clinical observations suggest that humans with amygdala damage have abnormal
fear reactions and a reduced experience of fear [1–3], these impressions have not been …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

Recently, there has been a convergence in lesion and neuroimaging data in the
identification of circuits underlying positive and negative emotion in the human brain …

The authors present an overview of the neural bases of emotion. They underscore the role of
the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala in 2 broad approach-and withdrawal-related …