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15 - General Engineering
University of Leicester
A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala
This work is the result of a collaboration with UCLA Medical Center and Caltech that involved single-neuron recordings from 41 neurosurgical patients and fMRI in normal subjects. We show that a specific area of the brain, namely the amygdala, gets selectively activated by pictures of animals compared to any other stimuli. This gives a new interpretation for the role of the amygdala, previously thought to be only involved in emotion processing. The article is in the 99th percentile of 1,225,517 articles across all journals (Altmetric). Is has received widespread media attention from Science, New Scientist, Wired, The Scientist, and others.