The enigma of the amygdala: on its contribution to human emotion

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Recognizing emotion from facial expressions: psychological and neurological mechanisms. (2002, background): “…studies had damage in addition to the amygdala, including temporal polar cortex and rhinal cortex, structures bidirectionally connected with the amygdala (Amaral, Price, Pitkanen, & Carmichael, 1992) that have been shown to modulate emotional behaviors in animal studies (Aggleton & Young, 2000).”
Behavior Problems After Early Life Stress: Contributions of the Hippocampus and Amygdala (2014, background): “emotional and social information processing, with damage to this area leading to problems in evaluating the significance of social stimuli (37,38).”
The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love (2004, background): “The amygdala is reliably activated in neuroimaging studies involving negative emotions, aggression and fear (Aggleton, 2000; Breiter et al., 1996; Morris et al., 1996), and lesion studies show its involvement in social and emotional judgment (Adolphs et al., 1998).”
The Developmental Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Early Attachment Relationships: A Theory and Some Evidence (2003, background): “, 1996; Frith and Frith, 1999, 2000; Emery and Perrett, 2000); this identifying information is rapidly processed for emotional significance in the amygdala (Rolls, 1999; Aggleton and Young, 2000; Emery and Perrett, 2000; Stone, 2000).”