Journal article
Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others' fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear
Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, Vol.288(1943), pp.20202651-20202651
01/27/2021
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2020.2651
PMID: 33499792
Abstract
The amygdala is a subcortical structure implicated in both the expression of conditioned fear and social fear recognition. Social fear recognition deficits following amygdala lesions are often interpreted as reflecting perceptual deficits, or the amygdala's role in coordinating responses to threats. But these explanations fail to capture why amygdala lesions impair both physiological and behavioural responses to multimodal fear cues and the ability to identify them. We hypothesized that social fear recognition deficits following amygdala damage reflect impaired conceptual understanding of fear. Supporting this prediction, we found specific impairments in the ability to predict others' fear (but not other emotions) from written scenarios following bilateral amygdala lesions. This finding is consistent with the suggestion that social fear recognition, much like social recognition of states like pain, relies on shared internal representations. Preserved judgements about the permissibility of causing others fear confirms suggestions that social emotion recognition and morality are dissociable.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others' fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear
- Creators
- Elise M Cardinale - Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USAJustin Reber - Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USAKatherine O'Connell - Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USAPeter E Turkeltaub - Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, Research Division, MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, Washington, DC, USADaniel Tranel - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USATony W Buchanan - Department of Psychology, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USAAbigail A Marsh - Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, Vol.288(1943), pp.20202651-20202651
- DOI
- 10.1098/rspb.2020.2651
- PMID
- 33499792
- ISSN
- 0962-8452
- eISSN
- 1471-2954
- Grant note
- name: NIH, award: 1 P50 MH094258-04A1, T32 GM108540
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/27/2021
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070771302771
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