An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals
- 8 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Neuroscience
- Vol. 8 (6), 720-722
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1465
Abstract
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.Keywords
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