Nature Neuroscience
3, 1077 - 1078 (2000)
doi:10.1038/80586
Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury
Andrew J. Calder1, Jill Keane1, Facundo Manes1, Nagui Antoun2
& Andrew W. Young31
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK
2
Department of Radiology, Addenbrooke's Hospital,
Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK
3
Department of Psychology, University of York,
Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK
Correspondence should be addressed to Andrew J. Calder andy.calder@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.ukHuntington's disease can particularly affect people's recognition of disgust
from facial expressions1,
2, and functional neuroimaging research
has demonstrated that facial expressions of disgust consistently engage different
brain areas (insula and putamen) than other facial expressions3,
4,
5.
However, it is not known whether these particular brain areas process only
facial signals of disgust or disgust signals from multiple modalities. Here
we describe evidence, from a patient with insula and putamen damage, for a
neural system for recognizing social signals of disgust from multiple modalities.
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