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results When schizophrenic patients were asked to recognise facial expressions consciously they were less successful than healthy control subjects. However, during a priming task in which emotional facial expressions were presented subconsciously the schizophrenic patients performed better than control subjects. In this article a model is presented which proposes that conscious emotional processing is a result of activation of the left amygdala and that subconscious emotional processing is a result of activation of the right amygdala.
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