Dissociating intensity from valence as sensory inputs to emotion.
In this issue of Neuron, Small and colleagues used fMRI to find evidence for a neural segregation of two dimensions underlying human gustatory experience: intensity and valence. These results join several recent reports that challenge long-held notions regarding amygdaloid representation of negatively valenced events.
Anderson
Adam K
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Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada.
Sobel
Noam
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D000679:Amygdala / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013649:Taste / Q000502:physiology*