Affective priming following unilateral temporal lobectomy : the role of the amygdala
The way that emotions are processed in the brain has been widely debated. The two leading hypotheses are the cognitive appraisal viewpoint (Lazarus, 1982) and the affective primacy hypothesis (Zajonc, 1980). The former argues that higher cortical structures are needed to evaluate affective stimuli w...
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-08-5989 |