Electrophysiological Responses in the Human Amygdala Discriminate Emotion Categories of Complex Visual Stimuli

Table 2.

Recording channels showing significant responses

Patient Session Channel Side Stimulus category
Aversive Pleasant Neutral
p n p n p n
66 1 5 Left <0.001* 29 0.245 25 0.42 24
66 1 7 Left 0.012* 28 0.27 27 0.001* 27
66 1 8 Left 0.016* 29 0.078 26 <0.001* 26
70 1 7 Left 0.012* 29 0.68 28 0.99 28
74 1 1 Left 0.015* 27 0.25 30 0.67 29
74 1 2 Left 0.004* 26 0.78 26 0.34 28
77 1 1 Right 0.016* 25 0.058 17 0.442 28
77 2 1 Right 0.015* 16 0.32 17 0.008* 22
77 2 5 Left 0.010* 17 0.63 17 0.36 20
77 2 6 Left 0.007* 16 0.35 17 0.014* 21
77 2 7 Left 0.007* 16 0.625 17 0.117 21
77 2 8 Left 0.015* 16 0.435 16 <0.001* 18
  • ERBP responses were initially evaluated with repeated-measures ANOVAs (see Materials and Methods). Channel numbers, side of recording (left or right amygdala), p values, and numbers of trials (n) are shown for the three emotion categories.

  • ↵* p < 0.017 was considered significant.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 22 no. 21 9502-9512
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