Personal space regulation by the human amygdala
The amygdala plays key roles in emotion and social cognition, but how this translates to face-to-face interactions involving real people remains unknown. We found that an individual with complete amygdala lesions lacked any sense of personal space. Furthermore, healthy individuals showed amygdala ac...
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Published in | Nature neuroscience Vol. 12; no. 10; pp. 1226 - 1227 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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New York
Nature Publishing Group US
01.10.2009
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Summary: | The amygdala plays key roles in emotion and social cognition, but how this translates to face-to-face interactions involving real people remains unknown. We found that an individual with complete amygdala lesions lacked any sense of personal space. Furthermore, healthy individuals showed amygdala activation upon close personal proximity. The amygdala may be required to trigger the strong emotional reactions normally following personal space violations, thus regulating interpersonal distance in humans. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Author Contributions D.P.K. and R.A. designed the experiment and wrote the paper; D.P.K. executed the studies; D.P.K., J.G., and J.M.T. analyzed the data. |
ISSN: | 1097-6256 1546-1726 |
DOI: | 10.1038/nn.2381 |