Amygdala Activation for Eye Contact Despite Complete Cortical Blindness
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Amygdala activation for eye contact despite complete cortical blindness.
Cortical blindness refers to the loss of vision that occurs after destruction of the primary visual cortex. Although there is no sensory cortex and hence no conscious vision, some cortically blind patients show amygdala activation in response to facial or bodily expressions of emotion. Here we investigated whether direction of gaze could also be processed in the absence of any functional visual...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0270-6474,1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3994-12.2013