Face processing impairments after amygdalotomy

Young, A. W., Aggleton, John Patrick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5573-1308, Hellawell, D. J., Johnson, M., Broks, P. and Hanley, J. R. 1995. Face processing impairments after amygdalotomy. Brain 118 (1) , pp. 15-24. 10.1093/brain/118.1.15

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Abstract

We report an investigation of face processing impairments in D.R., a 51-year-old woman with a partial bilateral amygdalotomy. D.R. was able to recognize pre-operatively familiar faces, but she showed generalized problems of name retrieval and a more circumscribed deficit affecting the recognition of faces learnt post-operatively. In contrast to her poor memory for new faces, D.R.'s ability to match simultaneously presented photographs of unfamiliar faces was unimpaired. However, D.R. also experienced deficits in expression processing which compromised the recognition of emotion from people's faces; she was poor both at matching and at identifying photographs of emotional facial expressions. In addition, her interpretation of eye gaze direction was defective, showing a more general problem in reading social signals from the face. The presence of impairments affecting the learning of new faces and the comprehension of gaze direction and facial expressions of emotion is consistent with the hypothesis of a role for the amygdala in learning and social behaviour.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Medicine Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	amygdala; face recognition; facial expression; gaze direction
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0006-8950
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2022 08:58
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/34950

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