The ability to experience pleasant or unpleasant feelings or to represent objects as “positive”
or “negative” is known as representing hedonic “valence.” Although scientists …

One of the major problems in affective neuroscience of healthy subjects as well as of
patients with emotional dysfunctions is to disentangle emotional core functions and non …

Emotion plays a significant role in goal‐directed behavior, yet its neural basis is yet poorly
understood. In several psychological models the cardinal dimensions that characterize the …

Objective: We aimed to study the neural processing of emotion‐denoting words based on a
circumplex model of affect, which posits that all emotions can be described as a linear …

Emotional behavior is organized along two psychophysiologic dimensions:(1) valence,
varying from negative to positive, and (2) arousal, varying from low to high. Behavioral …

Models describing the neural correlates of biased emotion processing in depression have
focused on increased activation of anterior cingulate and amygdala and decreased …

OBJECTIVE: The authors investigated, by whole brain functional magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI), the neural substrate underlying processing of emotion-related meanings …

Although the amygdala is a major locus for hedonic processing, how it encodes valence
information is poorly understood. Given the hedonic potency of odor stimuli and the …

Psychological frameworks conceptualize emotion along 2 dimensions,“valence” and
“arousal.” Arousal invokes a single axis of intensity increasing from neutral to maximally …

Many neuroscience studies have demonstrated that the human amygdala is a central
element in the neural workspace that computes affective value. Emerging evidence …