Evidence for evolutionary specialization in human limbic structures

Evidence for evolutionary specialization in human limbic structures

Increasingly, functional and evolutionary research has highlighted the important contribution emotion processing makes to complex human social cognition. As such, it may be asked whether neural structures involved in emotion processing, commonly referred to as limbic structures, have been impacted i...

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Main Authors: Nicole eBarger, Kari L Hanson, Kate eTeffer, Natalie M Schenker-Ahmed, Katerina eSemendeferi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Amygdala
Emotions
Hippocampus
frontal cortex
Comparative Neuroanatomy
human brain evolution
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00277/full

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