Intact rapid detection of fearful faces in the absence of the amygdala (2009)
Tsuchiya, Naotsugu, Moradi, Farshad, Felsen, Csilla, Yamazaki, Madoka, Adolphs, Ralph
The amygdala is thought to process fear-related stimuli rapidly and nonconsciously. We found that an individual with complete bilateral amygdala lesions, who cannot recognize fear from faces,...
Personal space regulation by the human amygdala (2009)
Kennedy, Daniel P., Gläscher, Jan, Tyszka, J. Michael, Adolphs, Ralph
The amygdala plays key roles in emotion and social cognition, but how this translates to face-to-face interactions involving real people remains unknown. We found that an individual with complete...
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...
Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions, and functional...
Dirk Neumann, Michael L. Spezio, Joseph Piven, Ralph Adolphs
autism resulting from impaired top-down
Neuroscience: who are we? (2009)
Writing for the interested public, Gazzaniga marshals recent findings from neuroscience to demonstrate the crucial roles of social interactions and context in the evolution of human mind.
The social brain: neural basis of social knowledge (2009)
Social cognition in humans is distinguished by psychological processes that allow us to make inferences about what is going on inside other people—their intentions, feelings, and thoughts. Some of...
Tsuchiya, Naotsugu, Kawasaki, Hiroto, Oya, Hiroyuki, Adolphs, Ralph
Faces are processed by a neural system with distributed anatomical components, but the roles of these components remain unclear. A dominant theory of face perception postulates independent...
The amygdala is known to play an important role in conscious and unconscious processing of emotional and highly arousing stimuli. Neuroanatomical evidence suggests that the amygdala participates in...
Michael L. Spezio, Fulvia Castelli, Ralph Adolphs
The role of the human amygdala in real social interactions remains essentially unknown, although studies in nonhuman primates and studies using photographs and video in humans have shown it to be...
A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)
Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, R. Michael, O'Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...
Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate’s visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...
A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)
Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, Ramon Michael, O’Doherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...
Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidates visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...
6 Functional anatomy of human social cognition (2008)
Andrea S. Heberlein, Ralph Adolphs
Social cognitive processes Humans and their ancestors have lived in social groups for millions of years. This history has provided selection pressures for the ability to predict conspecifics’...
Fear, faces, and the human amygdala (2008)
The amygdala's historical role in processing stimuli related to threat and fear is being modified to suggest a role that is broader and more abstract. Amygdala lesions impair the ability to seek out...
A neural basis for the effect of candidate appearance on election outcomes (2008)
Spezio, Michael L., Rangel, Antonio, Alvarez, Ramon Michael, ODoherty, John P., Mattes, Kyle, Todorov, Alexander, ...
Election outcomes correlate with judgments based on a candidate's visual appearance, suggesting that the attributions viewers make based on appearance, so-called thin-slice judgments, influence...
Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions (2007)
Kim, Hackjin, Adolphs, Ralph, O'Doherty, John P., Shimojo, Shinsuke
Decisions about whether we like someone are often made so rapidly from first impressions that it is difficult to examine the engagement of neural structures at specific points in time. Here, we used...
Michael Koenigs, Liane Young, Ralph Adolphs, Daniel Tranel, Fiery Cushman, Marc Hauser, ...
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortex (2006)
Gosselin, Nathalie, Samson, Séverine, Adolphs, Ralph, Noulhiane, Marion, Roy, Mathieu, Hasboun, Dominique, ...
Music is typically a pleasurable experience. But under certain circumstances, music can also be unpleasant, for example, when a young child randomly hits piano keys. Such unpleasant musical...
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...
Neumann, Dirk, Spezio, Michael L., Piven, Joseph, Adolphs, Ralph
People with autism are impaired in their social behavior, including their eye contact with others, but the processes that underlie this impairment remain elusive. We combined high-resolution eye...
Neumann, Dirk, Spezio, Michael L., Piven, Joseph, Adolphs, Ralph
People with autism are impaired in their social behavior, including their eye contact with others, but the processes that underlie this impairment remain elusive. We combined high-resolution eye...
Emotional responses to unpleasant music correlates with damage to the parahippocampal cortex (2006)
Gosselin, Nathalie, Samson, Séverine, Adolphs, Ralph, Noulhiane, Marion, Roy, Mathieu, Hasboun, Dominique, ...
Music is typically a pleasurable experience. But under certain circumstances, music can also be unpleasant, for example, when a young child randomly hits piano keys. Such unpleasant musical...
Analysis of single-unit responses to emotional scenes in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex (2005)
Kawasaki, Hiroto, Adolphs, Ralph, Oya, Hiroyuki, Kovach, Christopher, Damasio, Hanna, Kaufman, Olaf, ...
Lesion and functional imaging studies in humans have shown that the ventral and medial prefrontal cortex is critically involved in the processing of emotional stimuli, but both of these methods have...
Oya, Hiroyuki, Adolphs, Ralph, Kawasaki, Hiroto, Bechara, Antoine, Damasio, Antonio
Lesion and functional imaging studies have shown that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is critically involved in the avoidance of risky choices. However, detailed descriptions of the mechanisms...
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...
Processing of internal level differences in the auditory brainstem of the barn owl (2004)
Nervous systems process information about the environment in order to generate adaptive behavior. Sensory information that is obtained through different modalities, gleaned from different...
Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledge (2004)
Heberlein, Andrea S., Adolphs, Ralph
Humans spontaneously imbue the world with social meaning: we see not only emotions and intentional behaviors in humans and other animals, but also anger in the movements of thunderstorms and willful...
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...
Is all face processing holistic? The view from UCSD (2003)
Garrison W. Cottrell, Matthew N. Dailey, Curtis Padgett, Ralph Adolphs
Is all face processing holistic? 2 There has been a great deal of progress, as well as controversy, in understanding how complex objects, in particular, human faces, are processed by the cortex. At...
Is all face processing holistic? The view from UCSD (2003)
Garrison W. Cottrell, Matthew N. Dailey, Curtis Padgett, Ralph Adolphs
Is all face processing holistic? 2 There has been a great deal of progress, as well as controversy, in understanding how complex objects, in particular, human faces, are processed by the cortex. At...
Is all face processing holistic? The view from UCSD (2003)
Garrison W. Cottrell, Matthew N. Dailey, Curtis Padgett, Ralph Adolphs
Is all face processing holistic? 2 There has been a great deal of progress, as well as controversy, in understanding how complex objects, in particular, human faces, are processed by the cortex. At...
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...
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...
EMPATH: A Neural Network that Categorizes Facial Expressions (2002)
Dailey, Matthew N., Cottrell, Garrison W., Padgett, Curtis, Adolphs, Ralph
There are two competing theories of facial expression recognition. Some researchers have suggested that it is an example of "categorical perception." In this view, expression categories are...
EMPATH: A Neural Network that Categorizes Facial Expressions (2002)
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell, Curtis Padgett, Ralph Adolphs
There are two competing theories of facial expression recognition. Some researchers have suggested that it is an example of "categorical perception." In this view, expression categories are...
EMPATH: A Neural Network that Categorizes Facial Expressions (2002)
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell, Ralph Adolphs, Curtis Padgett
There are two competing theories of facial expression recognition. Some researchers have suggested that facial expression recognition is an example of categorical perception.Inthisview,ex- pression...
Abnormal processing of social information from faces in autism (2001)
Adolphs, Ralph, Sears, Lonnie, Piven, Joseph
Autism has been thought to be characterized, in part, by dysfunction in emotional and social cognition, but the pathology of the underlying processes and their neural substrates remain poorly...
Verbal and Nonverbal Emotional Memory Following Unilateral Amygdala Damage (2001)
Buchanan, Tony W., Denburg, Natalie L., Tranel, Daniel, Adolphs, Ralph
Hypersociability in Williams Syndrome (2000)
Jones, Wendy, Bellugi, Ursula, Lai, Zona, Chiles, Michael, Reilly, Judy, Lincoln, Alan, ...
Studies of abnormal populations provide a rare opportunity for examining relationships between cognition, genotype and brain neurobiology, permitting comparisons across these different levels of...
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...
A Six-Unit Network is All You Need to Discover Happiness (2000)
Matthew N. Dailey, Garrison W. Cottrell, Ralph Adolphs
In this paper, we build upon previous results to show that our facial expression recognition system, an extremely simple neural network containing six units, trained by backpropagation, is a...
Categorical Perception in Facial Emotion Classification (1996)
Curtis Padgett, Garrison W. Cottrell, Ralph Adolphs
We present an automated emotion recognition system that is capable of identifying six basic emotions (happy, surprise, sad, angry, fear, disgust) in novel face images. An ensemble of simple...
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Processing of internal level differences in the auditory brainstem of the barn owl (1992)
Nervous systems process information about the environment in order to generate adaptive behavior. Sensory information that is obtained through different modalities, gleaned from different...
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...
Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledge
Heberlein, Andrea S., Adolphs, Ralph
Humans spontaneously imbue the world with social meaning: we see not only emotions and intentional behaviors in humans and other animals, but also anger in the movements of thunderstorms and willful...
Electrophysiological correlates of reward prediction error recorded in the human prefrontal cortex
Oya, Hiroyuki, Adolphs, Ralph, Kawasaki, Hiroto, Bechara, Antoine, Damasio, Antonio, Howard, Matthew A.
Lesion and functional imaging studies have shown that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is critically involved in the avoidance of risky choices. However, detailed descriptions of the mechanisms...
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...
Impaired spontaneous anthropomorphizing despite intact perception and social knowledge
Heberlein, Andrea S., Adolphs, Ralph
Humans spontaneously imbue the world with social meaning: we see not only emotions and intentional behaviors in humans and other animals, but also anger in the movements of thunderstorms and willful...
Electrophysiological correlates of reward prediction error recorded in the human prefrontal cortex
Oya, Hiroyuki, Adolphs, Ralph, Kawasaki, Hiroto, Bechara, Antoine, Damasio, Antonio, Howard, Matthew A.
Lesion and functional imaging studies have shown that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is critically involved in the avoidance of risky choices. However, detailed descriptions of the mechanisms...
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...
Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions
Kim, Hackjin, Adolphs, Ralph, O'Doherty, John P., Shimojo, Shinsuke
Decisions about whether we like someone are often made so rapidly from first impressions that it is difficult to examine the engagement of neural structures at specific points in time. Here, we used...
Neumann, Dirk, Spezio, Michael L., Piven, Joseph, Adolphs, Ralph
People with autism are impaired in their social behavior, including their eye contact with others, but the processes that underlie this impairment remain elusive. We combined high-resolution eye...