The functional neuroanatomy of emotion recognition is inadequately
understood despite well-documented clinical situations where emotion
recognition is impaired (aprosodia). Oxygen-15 water positron-emission
tomography (PET) was used to study 9 healthy women volunteers during three
match-to-sample conditions, each repeated twice: a study task matching
facial emotions and control tasks matching spatial positions or facial
identity. Results suggest that the higher order functional neural network
for recognizing emotion in visual input likely involves the right anterior
cingulate and the bilateral inferior frontal gyri.Abstract Teaser