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Article Dans Une Revue Cerebral Cortex Communications Année : 2022

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

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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 (i.e. in a virtual reality environment and in a real setting). Our results showed that all three patients set shorter interpersonal distances compared to neurotypical controls. In addition, compared to controls, none of the patients adjusted such physical distances depending on facial emotional expressions, despite they preserved ability to categorize them. Finally, patients' heart rate responses differed from controls when viewing approaching faces. Our findings bring compelling evidence that unilateral lesions within the medial temporal cortex, not necessarily restricted to the amygdala, are sufficient to alter interpersonal distance, thus shedding new light on the neural circuitry regulating distance in social interactions.
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hal-03806226 , version 1 (07-10-2022)

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Audrey Dureux, Luca Zigiotto, Silvio Sarubbo, Clément Desoche, Alessandro Farnè, et al.. Personal space regulation is affected by unilateral temporal lesions beyond the amygdala. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2022, 3 (3), pp.tgac031. ⟨10.1093/texcom/tgac031⟩. ⟨hal-03806226⟩
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