Difficulty Identifying Feelings and Automatic Activation in the Fusiform Gyrus in Response to Facial Emotion.

Difficulties in identifying and differentiating one's emotions are a central characteristic of alexithymia. In the present study, automatic activation of the fusiform gyrus to facial emotion was investigated as a function of alexithymia as assessed by the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale. During 3...

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Published in:	Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 107; no. 3; pp. 915 - 923
Main Authors:	Eichmann, Mischa, Kugel, Harald, Suslow, Thomas
Format:	Article
Published:	Ammons Scientific, Ltd. December 2008
Subjects:	Brain function localization Emotions Recognition (Psychology) Alexithymia
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost