ArticleAffective science2020
Identifying the representational structure of affect using fMRI.
Article in Affective science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Decoding affect in emotional body language: valence representation in the action observation network.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Arousal may not be anything to get excited about.Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion · 2025Article
- Intersubject representational similarity analysis uncovers the impact of state anxiety on brain activation patterns in the human extrastriate cortex.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Article
- The representation of emotion knowledge across development.Child development · 2022Article
- Structural and functional brain networks of individual differences in trait anger and anger control: An unsupervised machine learning study.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
- Amygdalostriatal coupling underpins positive but not negative coloring of ambiguous affect.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Stimulus arousal drives amygdalar responses to emotional expressions across sensory modalities.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The events we experience day to day can be described in terms of their affective quality: some are rewarding, others are upsetting, and still others are inconsequential. These natural distinctions reflect an underlying representational structure used to classify affective quality. In affective psychology, many experiments model this representational structure with two dimensions, using either the dimensions of valence and arousal, or alternatively, the dimensions of positivity and negativity. Using fMRI, we show that it is optimal to use all four dimensions to examine the data. Our findings include: (1) a gradient representation of valence that is anatomically organized along the fusiform gyrus, and (2) distinct subregions within bilateral amygdala that track arousal versus negativity. Importantly, these results would have remained concealed had either of the commonly used 2-dimensional approaches been adopted
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