Brain, Vol. 118, No. 1, 15-24, 1995
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Face processing impairments after amygdalotomy
1MRC Applied Psychology Unit Cambridge 2Department of Neurology, St James's University Hospital Leeds 3Neuropsychology Unit, Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield 4Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool Edinburgh, UK 5School of Psychology, University of Wales College of Cardiff Edinburgh, UK 6Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital Edinburgh, UK
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Dr Andy Young, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
We report an investigation of face processing impairments in D.R., a 51-year-old woman with a partial bilateral amygdalotomy. D.R. was able to recognize pre-operatively familiar faces, but she showed generalized problems of name retrieval and a more circumscribed deficit affecting the recognition of faces learnt post-operatively. In contrast to her poor memory for new faces, D.R.'s ability to match simultaneously presented photographs of unfamiliar faces was unimpaired. However, D.R. also experienced deficits in expression processing which compromised the recognition of emotion from people's faces; she was poor both at matching and at identifying photographs of emotional facial expressions. In addition, her interpretation of eye gaze direction was defective, showing a more general problem in reading social signals from the face. The presence of impairments affecting the learning of new faces and the comprehension of gaze direction and facial expressions of emotion is consistent with the hypothesis of a role for the amygdala in learning and social behaviour.
amygdala; face recognition; facial expression; gaze direction
Received July 27, 1994. Accepted August 30, 1994.
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