Measuring Personal Space Preferences (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Measuring Personal Space Preferences

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Patient SM, a woman with complete bilateral amygdala lesions (red), preferred to stand close to the experimenter (black). On average, control participants (blue) preferred to stand nearly twice as far away from the same experimenter. Images drawn to scale.

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Nature Neuroscience/Dan Kennedy (Caltech)

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