Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Leicester
Article title
A category-specific response to animals in the right human amygdala
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
Title of journal
NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Article number
-
Volume number
14
Issue number
10
First page of article
1247
ISSN of journal
1097-6256
Year of publication
2011
URL
-
Number of additional authors
11
Additional information
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.
Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
A - Bioengineering
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
