title: Overlapping neural correlates of reading emotionally positive and negative adjectives.
abstract: Comparison of positive and negative naturally read adjectives to neutral adjectives yielded an overlapping higher BOLD response in the occipital and the orbitofrontal cortex (gyrus rectus). Superior medial frontal gyrus and posterior cingulate gyrus showed higher BOLD response to negative adjectives and inferior frontal gyrus to positive adjectives. The overlap of activated regions and lack of pronounced distinct regions supports the assumption that the processing of negative and positive words mainly takes place in overlapping brain regions.
authors.affiliation: Heidelberg Academy of Science, Department Neuroimaging, J5, 68159 Mannheim, Germany.
authors.forename: Traute
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Demirakca
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Herbert
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kissler
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ruf
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wokrina
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ende