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Nature Neuroscience  8, 720 - 722 (2005)
Published online: 8 May 2005; | doi:10.1038/nn1465

An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals

Matthew D Lieberman1, Ahmad Hariri2, Johanna M Jarcho1, Naomi I Eisenberger1 & Susan Y Bookheimer3

1  Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1563, USA.

2  Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Room E-729, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-2593, USA.

3  Brain Mapping Center, University of California Los Angeles, School of Medicine, 660 Charles Young Drive, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Matthew D Lieberman lieber@ucla.edu
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine the nature of amygdala sensitivity to race. Both African-American and Caucasian-American individuals showed greater amygdala activity to African-American targets than to Caucasian-American targets, suggesting that race-related amygdala activity may result from cultural learning rather than from the novelty of other races. Additionally, verbal encoding of African-American targets produced significantly less amygdala activity than perceptual encoding of African-American targets.


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