Journal
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 27, Issue 15, Pages 3994-3997Publisher
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3789-06.2007
Keywords
social cognition; face gaze; lesion; autism; amygdala; eye position; facial
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- Autism Speaks [AS1693] Funding Source: Medline
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The role of the human amygdala in real social interactions remains essentially unknown, although studies in nonhuman primates and studies using photographs and video in humans have shown it to be critical for emotional processing and suggest its importance for social cognition. We show here that complete amygdala lesions result in a severe reduction in direct eye contact during conversations with real people, together with an abnormal increase in gaze to the mouth. These novel findings from real social interactions are consistent with an hypothesized role for the amygdala in autism and the approach taken here opens up new directions for quantifying social behavior in humans.
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