ReviewFrontiers in psychology2016
Amygdala Response to Emotional Stimuli without Awareness: Facts and Interpretations.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 140 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Cardiac Signals Facilitate the Breakthrough to Awareness of Emotional Stimuli.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
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- Amygdala-insula response to neutral stimuli and the prospective prediction of anxiety sensitivity.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Training can enhance unconscious response priming on fast trials even when measuring consciousness on a trial-by-trial basis.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Impairment of unconscious emotional processing after unilateral medial temporal structure resection.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Looming Angry Faces: Preliminary Evidence of Differential Electrophysiological Dynamics for Filtered Stimuli via Low and High Spatial Frequencies.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Auditory guidance of eye movements toward threat-related images in the absence of visual awareness.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Unconscious processing of happy faces correlates with prosocial tendency but not extraversion.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Individual differences in intracortical inhibition predict action control when facing emotional stimuli.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence, of the triggering emotional stimulus. Nevertheless, there is as of yet no consensus on the limits and conditions that affect the extent of amygdala's response without focused attention or awareness. Here we review past and recent studies on this subject, examining neuroimaging literature on healthy participants as well as brain-damaged patients, and we comment on their strengths and limits. We propose a theoretical distinction between processes involved in
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