There is converging evidence that people rapidly and automatically encode affective
dimensions of objects, events, and environments that they encounter in the normal course of …

Brain activity was monitored while participants viewed picture sets that reflected high or low
levels of arousal and positive, neutral, or negative valence. Pictures within a set were …

Few studies have examined how multisensory emotional experiences are processed and
encoded into memory. Here, we aimed to determine whether, at encoding, activity within …

The brain state hypothesis of image-induced affect processing, which posits that a one-to-
one mapping exists between each image stimulus and its induced functional magnetic …

Decoding and information theoretic techniques were used to analyze the predictions that
can be made from functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging data on individual trials …

Objectives: To examine the brain circuitry involved in emotional experience and determine
whether the cerebral hemispheres are specialized for positive and negative emotional …

Understanding how emotions are represented neurally is a central aim of affective
neuroscience. Despite decades of neuroimaging efforts addressing this question, it remains …

We experience a rich variety of emotions in daily life, and a fundamental goal of affective
neuroscience is to determine how these emotions are represented in the brain. Recent …

The brain contains both generalized and stimulus-type-specific representations of aversive
events, but models of how these are integrated and related to subjective experience are …

The processing of emotional facial expression is a major part of social communication and
understanding. In addition to explicit processing, facial expressions are also processed …