The human amygdala plays an important role in gaze monitoring - A PET study

被引：326

作者：

Kawashima, R

Sugiura, M

Kato, T

Nakamura, A

Hatano, K

Ito, K

Fukuda, H

Kojima, S

Nakamura, K

机构：

[1] Tohoku Univ, IDAC, Dept Nucl Med & Radiol, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808575, Japan

[2] Aoba Brain Imaging Res Ctr, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

[3] Natl Inst Longev Sci, Obu, Japan

[4] Kyoto Univ, Inst Primate Res, Inuyama, Aichi, Japan

来源：

BRAIN | 1999年 / 122卷

基金：

日本学术振兴会;

关键词：

PET; regional cerebral blood flow; amygdala; gaze direction discrimination; social contact;

D O I：

10.1093/brain/122.4.779

中图分类号：

R74 [神经病学与精神病学];

学科分类号：

摘要：

Social contact often initially depends on ascertaining the direction of the other person's gaze. We determined the brain areas involved in gaze monitoring by a functional neuroimaging study. Discrimination between the direction of gaze significantly activated a region in the left amygdala during eye-contact and no eye-contact tasks to the same extent. However, a region in the right amygdala was specifically activated only during the eye-contact task. Results confirm that the left amygdala plays a general role in the interpretation of eye gaze direction, and that the activity of the right amygdala of the subject increases when another individual's gaze is directed towards him. This suggests that the human amygdala plays a role in reading social signals from the face.

引用

页码：779 / 783

页数：5

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