TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turkeltaub, Peter E
TI  - Bilateral amygdala damage linked to impaired ability to predict others' fear but preserved moral judgements about causing others fear
SN  - 0962-8452
PY  - 2021///
KW  - IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED
KW  - MedStar National Rehabilitation Network
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online from MWHC library: 1997 - present
N2  - 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
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.2651
ER  -