Personal space regulation is affected by unilateral temporal lesions beyond the amygdala.

ABSTRACT: We constantly face situations involving interactions with others that require us to automatically adjust our physical distances to avoid discomfort or anxiety. A previous case study has demonstrated that the integrity of both amygdalae is essential to regulate interpersonal distances. Despite unilateral lesion to the amygdala, as to other sectors of the medial temporal cortex, are known to also affect social behavior, their role in the regulation of interpersonal distances has never been investigated. Here, we sought to fill this gap by testing three patients with unilateral temporal lesions following surgical resections, including one patient with a lesion mainly centered on the amygdala and two with lesions to adjacent medial temporal cortex, on two versions of the stop distance paradigm

SUBMITTER: Dureux A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9441012 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature