Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
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There are two divergent concepts relating to the neural basis of emotional behaviour and experience. One view holds that emotional experience is a by product of neural computations associated with processing of value-laden stimuli.1 An alternative view proposes a specific functional anatomy based on observations that deficits in emotional experience may ensue in patients with specific brain lesions.2 However, little is known about how subjective aspects of emotion are represented in the intact brain. Selective visual attention can modulate taskspecific neural activity in early visual pathways as seen, for example, during visual processing.3,4 In this experiment we tested the hypothesis that selectively attending to subjective emotional responses, in the context of processing emotional stimuli, would modulate neural activity supporting the representation of emotional experience. We addressed this hypothesis by creating emotional picture sets and comparing the neural responses under conditions when the subjects attended to either the evoked emotional response or to spatial aspects of the depicted scenes. Materials and Methods
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