A neuroanatomical dissociation for emotion induced by music (2009)
Johnsen, Erica L., Tranel, Daniel, Lutgendorf, Susan, Adolphs, Ralph
Does feeling an emotion require changes in autonomic responses, as William James proposed? Can feelings and autonomic responses be dissociated? Findings from cognitive neuroscience have identified...
Lesion mapping of cognitive abilities linked to intelligence (2009)
Gläscher, Jan, Tranel, Daniel, Paul, Lynn K., Rudrauf, David, Rorden, Chris, Hornaday, Amanda, ...
The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) assesses a wide range of cognitive abilities and impairments. Factor analyses have documented four underlying indices that jointly comprise intelligence...
Krajbich, Ian, Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie L.q, Camerer, Colin F.
Damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) impairs concern for other people, as reflected in the dysfunctional real-life social behavior of patients with such damage, as well as their...
Does vivid emotional imagery depend on body signals? (2009)
Vianna, Eduardo Paulo Morawski, Naqvi, Nasir, Bechara, Antoine, Tranel, Daniel
Right ventromedial prefrontal cortex: a neuroanatomical correlate of impulse control in boys (2009)
Boes, Aaron D., Bechara, Antoine, Tranel, Daniel, Anderson, Steve W., Richman, Lynn, Nopoulos, Peg
Emerging data on the neural mechanisms of impulse control highlight brain regions involved in emotion and decision making, including the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), anterior cingulate...
On Becoming a Peer Reviewer for a Neuropsychology Journal (2009)
Duff, Kevin, O'Bryant, Sid E., Westervelt, Holly James, Sweet, Jerry J., Reynolds, Cecil R., Van Gorp, Wilfred G., ...
The peer-review process is an invaluable service provided by the professional community, and it provides the critical foundation for the advancement of science. However, there is remarkably little...
Donald A. Robin, Daniel Tranel, Hanna Damasio
The auditory perception of temporal and spectral information was studied in subjects with lesions in the temporoparietal region of the left (LH group), or right (RH group) hemisphere (n = 5 in each...
Prefrontal cortex damage abolishes brand-cued changes in cola preference (2008)
Koenigs, Michael, Tranel, Daniel
Human decision-making is remarkably susceptible to commercial advertising, yet the neurobiological basis of this phenomenon remains largely unexplored. With a series of Coke and Pepsi taste tests we...
Amygdala contribution to selective dimensions of emotion (2007)
Berntson, Gary G., Bechara, Antoine, Damasio, Hanna, Tranel, Daniel, Cacioppo, John T.
The amygdala has been implicated in emotional processes, although the precise nature of the emotional deficits following amygdala lesions remains to be fully elucidated. Cognitive disturbances in the...
Michael Koenigs, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Fiery Cushman, Marc Hauser, ...
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
Talking across time: Use of reported speech as a communicative resource in amnesia (2006)
Duff, Melissa, Hengst, Julie, Tranel, Daniel, Cohen, Neal
Reported speech (RS) is a discourse phenomenon wherein speakers represent speech and thought from other times and places, bringing together in one utterance multiple speakers and contexts. This study...
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
Stress can enhance or impair memory performance. Both cortisol release and sympathetic nervous system responses have been implicated in these differential effects. Here we investigated how memory...
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
Abnormalities of both memory and emotion have been reported in patients with unilateral damage to the anteromedial temporal lobe, probably reflecting the functions of the amygdala and hippocampus in...
Increased feelings with increased body signals (2006)
Vianna, Eduardo P. M., Weinstock, Joel, Elliott, David, Summers, Robert, Tranel, Daniel
Since the beginning of psychology as a scientific endeavour, the question of whether the body plays a role in how a person experiences emotion has been the centre of emotion research. Patients with...
Increased feelings with increased body signals (2006)
Vianna, Eduardo P. M., Weinstock, Joel, Elliott, David, Summers, Robert, Tranel, Daniel
Since the beginning of psychology as a scientific endeavour, the question of whether the body plays a role in how a person experiences emotion has been the centre of emotion research. Patients with...
Does gender play a role in functional asymmetry of ventromedial prefrontal cortex? (2005)
Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Hanna, Denburg, Natalie L., Bechara, Antoine
We found previously in a lesion study that the right-sided sector of the ventromedial prefrontal cortices (VMPCs) was critical for social/emotional functioning and decision-making, whereas the...
Dominance attributions following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (2004)
Karafin, Matthew S., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
Damage to the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VM) can result in dramatic and maladaptive changes in social behavior despite preservation of most other cognitive abilities. One important aspect...
Cortical Regions for Judgments of Emotions and Personality Traits from Point-light Walkers (2004)
Heberlein, Andrea S., Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Hanna
Humans are able to use nonverbal behavior to make fast, reliable judgments of both emotional states and personality traits. Whereas a sizeable body of research has identified neural structures...
Impaired judgments of sadness but not happiness following bilateral amygdala damage (2004)
Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel
Although the amygdala's role in processing facial expressions of fear has been well established, its role in the processing of other emotions is unclear. In particular, evidence for the amygdala's...
Exploring the neurological substrate of emotional and social intelligence (2003)
Bar-On, Reuven, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie L., Bechara, Antoine
The somatic marker hypothesis posits that deficits in emotional signalling (somatic states) lead to poor judgment in decision-making, especially in the personal and social realms. Similar to this...
Exploring the neurological substrate of emotional and social intelligence (2003)
Bar-On, Reuven, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie L., Bechara, Antoine
The somatic marker hypothesis posits that deficits in emotional signalling (somatic states) lead to poor judgment in decision‐making, especially in the personal and social realms. Similar to...
A Specific Role for the Human Amygdala in Olfactory Memory (2003)
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
The medial temporal lobe is known to play a role in the processing of olfaction and memory. The specific contribution of the human amygdala to memory for odors has not been addressed, however. The...
Exploring the neurological substrate of emotional and social intelligence (2003)
Bar-On, Reuven, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie L., Bechara, Antoine
The somatic marker hypothesis posits that deficits in emotional signalling (somatic states) lead to poor judgment in decision-making, especially in the personal and social realms. Similar to this...
Impaired recognition of social emotions following amygdala damage (2002)
Adolphs, Ralph, Baron-Cohen, Simon, Tranel, Daniel
Lesion, functional imaging, and single-unit studies in human and nonhuman animals have demonstrated a role for the amygdala in processing stimuli with emotional and social significance. We...
Verbal and Nonverbal Emotional Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage (2001)
Buchanan, Tony W., Denburg, Natalie L., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
This paper explores from a neuropsychological perspective the relation between the meanings of English locative prepositions (e.g., in, on, above, below) and the kinds of representations that are...
Ralph Adolphs, Hanna Damasio, Daniel Tranel, Greg Cooper, Antonio R. Damasio
Although lesion and functional imaging studies have broadly implicated the right hemisphere in the recognition of emotion, neither the underlying processes nor the precise anatomical correlates are...
Bechara, Antoine, Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Hanna
On a gambling task that models real-life decisions, patients with bilateral lesions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VM) opt for choices that yield high immediate gains in spite of higher...
Bechara, Antoine, Tranel, Daniel, Damasio, Hanna, Damasio, Antonio R.
Following damage to specific sectors of the prefrontal cortex, humans develop a defect in real-life decision making, in spite of otherwise normal intellectual performance. The patients so affected...
GRAFF-RADFORD, NEILL R., TRANEL, DANIEL, VAN HOESEN, GARY W., BRANDT, JOAN P.
The anatomical basis and cognitive profile of diencephalic amnesia remain unclear. We report a two-part study. First, we studied 4 patients with bilateral medial thalamic infarctions using magnetic...
Impaired Emotional Declarative Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage
Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie
Case studies of patients with bilateral amygdala damage and functional imaging studies of normal individuals have demonstrated that the amygdala plays a critical role in encoding emotionally arousing...
Verbal and Nonverbal Emotional Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage
Buchanan, Tony W., Denburg, Natalie L., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
The amygdala is involved in the normal facilitation of memory by emotion, but the separate contributions of the left and right amygdala to memory for verbal or nonverbal emotional material have not...
A Specific Role for the Human Amygdala in Olfactory Memory
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
The medial temporal lobe is known to play a role in the processing of olfaction and memory. The specific contribution of the human amygdala to memory for odors has not been addressed, however. The...
A Specific Role for the Human Amygdala in Olfactory Memory
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
The medial temporal lobe is known to play a role in the processing of olfaction and memory. The specific contribution of the human amygdala to memory for odors has not been addressed, however. The...
Impaired Emotional Declarative Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage
Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, Denburg, Natalie
Case studies of patients with bilateral amygdala damage and functional imaging studies of normal individuals have demonstrated that the amygdala plays a critical role in encoding emotionally arousing...
Verbal and Nonverbal Emotional Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage
Buchanan, Tony W., Denburg, Natalie L., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
The amygdala is involved in the normal facilitation of memory by emotion, but the separate contributions of the left and right amygdala to memory for verbal or nonverbal emotional material have not...
Buchanan, Tony W., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
Stress can enhance or impair memory performance. Both cortisol release and sympathetic nervous system responses have been implicated in these differential effects. Here we investigated how memory...
Anderson, Steven W., Todd, Michael M., Hindman, Bradley J., Clarke, William R., Torner, James C., Tranel, Daniel, ...
Objective Subarachnoid hemorrhage and surgical obliteration of ruptured intracranial aneurysms are frequently associated with neurological and neuropsychological abnormalities. We reported that...
Amygdala contribution to selective dimensions of emotion
Berntson, Gary G., Bechara, Antoine, Damasio, Hanna, Tranel, Daniel, Cacioppo, John T.
The amygdala has been implicated in emotional processes, although the precise nature of the emotional deficits following amygdala lesions remains to be fully elucidated. Cognitive disturbances in the...
Increased feelings with increased body signals
Vianna, Eduardo P. M., Weinstock, Joel, Elliott, David, Summers, Robert, Tranel, Daniel
Since the beginning of psychology as a scientific endeavour, the question of whether the body plays a role in how a person experiences emotion has been the centre of emotion research. Patients with...
Prefrontal cortex damage abolishes brand-cued changes in cola preference
Koenigs, Michael, Tranel, Daniel
Human decision-making is remarkably susceptible to commercial advertising, yet the neurobiological basis of this phenomenon remains largely unexplored. With a series of Coke and Pepsi taste tests we...