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Nature Neuroscience 12, 1226–1227 (1 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/nn.2381

Personal space regulation by the human amygdala

Daniel P Kennedy , Jan Gl|[auml]|scher , J Michael Tyszka & Ralph Adolphs

The amygdala plays key roles in emotion and social cognition, but how this translates to face-to-face interactions involving real people remains unknown. We found that an individual with complete amygdala lesions lacked any sense of personal space.