The amygdala: vigilance and emotion

By Michael Davis, P. Whalen. Molecular Psychiatry, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces (2018, background): “…GornoTempini et al., 1998; Ishai et al., 2000; Leveroni et al., 2000), and emotional response and processing of biological significance of affective visual stimuli (amygdala, insula, and ventral striatum; Adolphs, Tranel, & Damasio, 1998; Davis & Whalen, 2001; Olausson et al., 2002; White, 1989).”
Valence is a basic building block of emotional life (2006, background): “An object is valuable when it is potentially important to survival (Davis & Whalen, 2001) or relevant to immediate goals (Rogers, 1959; Smith & Kirby, 2001).”
The social neuroscience of intergroup relations (2008, background): “…of the amygdala from being a fear module to being a critical structure for vigilance, arousal, learning, and the orchestration of the fightor-flight response—processes strongly engaged in fearful situations, but which do not represent fear per se (Davis & Whalen, 2001; Phelps, 2006; Whalen, 1998).”
Neural systems for recognition of familiar faces. (2007, background): “The amygdala is central or inducing a state of alertness that plays a central role in the ppraisal of new individuals (Davis & Whalen, 2001).”
Investigating emotion with music: An fMRI study (2006, background): “…well as the left anterior superior insula during both halves, and additionally Rolandic and frontal opercular areas (inferior BA 44) during the second block. changes within the amygdala are not only related to unpleasant, but also to pleasant emotion [see also Davis and Whalen, 2001; Zald, 2003].”
Functional neuroimaging of anxiety: a meta-analysis of emotional processing in PTSD, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia. (2007, background): “The basolateral complex is the primary site of sensory input into the amygdala, whereas the central nucleus contains efferent subnuclei mediating autonomic, endocrine, and behavioral responses to threat (4, 73).”
Social and emotional attachment in the neural representation of faces (2004, positive): “This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the amygdala plays a role in evoking a state of alertness (Davis and Whalen, 2001) and with the hypothesis that it functions as a ''social brake'' when evaluating sources of potential threats (Adolphs et al., 1998; Amaral, 2002; Winston et al.,…”
Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: Brain regions involved in processing anger prosody (2005, positive): “…may not only activate the amygdala, but also produce greater activation of face-selective areas in fusiform cortex (Armony and Dolan, 2002; Vuilleumier et al., 2001, 2004), presumably through direct feedback from the amygdala (Davis and Whalen, 2001; LeDoux, 1996; Vuilleumier et al., 2004).”
Sequence of information processing for emotions based on the anatomic dialogue between prefrontal cortex and amygdala (2007, background): “…from the amygdala to prefrontal cortices may have a prominent role in focusing attention on motivationally relevant stimuli, consistent with the role of the amygdala in emotional alertness and vigilance (reviewed in Gallagher and Holland, 1994; LeDoux, 2000; Davis and Whalen, 2001; Zald, 2003).”
An integrated process model of stereotype threat effects on performance. (2008, background): “It has been well documented that when an individual experiences visceral arousal engendered by an environmental threat, systems are brought online to focus attention on the perceived threat (Davis & Whalen, 2001).”
Beyond simple models of self-control to circuit-based accounts of adolescent behavior. (2015, background): “This region is critical for associative learning and detecting the emotional significance of information in the environment (Davis & Whalen 2001, LeDoux 2002).”
Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact. (2007, background): “The amygdala has extensive re-entrant projections to all regions of visual cortex, so once activated it is able to directly regulate cortical perceptual processing and thus the kind of input it continues to receive (Amaral, Price, Pitkanen, & Carmichael, 1992; Davis & Whalen, 2001; LeDoux, 2000).”