Adolphs R, Tranel D, Damasio H
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA.
Neuropsychology. 2001 Jul;15(3):396-404. doi: 10.1037//0894-4105.15.3.396.
The anteromedial temporal lobe has been found to participate in processing emotion, but there are unresolved discrepancies in the literature. To address this issue, the authors investigated recognition of emotion from faces and from prosody in 26 participants with unilateral temporal lobectomy (15 left, 11 right) and in 50 brain-damaged controls. Participants with right, but not left, temporal lobectomy did significantly worse in recognizing fear from facial expressions. There were no group differences in recognizing emotional prosody. Neither IQ nor basic perceptual function accounted for task performance; however, there was a moderate negative correlation between extent of amygdala damage and overall performance. Consistent with some prior studies, these findings support a role for the right anteromedial temporal lobe (including amygdala) in recognizing emotion from faces but caution in drawing conclusions from small group samples.
已发现颞叶前内侧参与情绪处理，但文献中仍存在未解决的差异。为解决这一问题，作者对26名接受单侧颞叶切除术的参与者（15名左侧，11名右侧）和50名脑损伤对照者进行了面部表情和韵律情绪识别研究。右侧而非左侧颞叶切除术的参与者在识别面部表情中的恐惧方面表现明显更差。在识别情绪韵律方面没有组间差异。智商和基本感知功能均不能解释任务表现；然而，杏仁核损伤程度与总体表现之间存在中度负相关。与一些先前的研究一致，这些发现支持右侧颞叶前内侧（包括杏仁核）在识别面部表情中的情绪方面发挥作用，但从小样本组得出结论时需谨慎。
