The brain basis of emotion: A meta-analytic review
Harvard University · Massachusetts General Hospital · +5 more institutions
Abstract
Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades, scientists are poised to answer this question. In this target article, we present a meta-analytic summary of the neuroimaging literature on human emotion. We compare the locationist approach (i.e., the hypothesis that discrete emotion categories consistently and specifically correspond to distinct brain regions) with the psychological constructionist approach (i.e., the hypothesis that discrete emotion categories are constructed of more general brain networks not specific to those categories) to better understand the brain basis of emotion.…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 63.68
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 800
Authors
5- KAKristen A. LindquistCorresponding
Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- TDTor D. Wager
University of Colorado Boulder
- HKHedy Kober
Yale University
- EBEliza Bliss‐Moreau
University of California, Davis
- LFLisa Feldman Barrett
Northeastern University, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Topics & keywords
- Psychology
- Basis (linear algebra)
- Cognitive psychology
- Mathematics
Funding
- NSNational Science FoundationAward: 0631637
- HUHarvard University
- NANational Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- NINational Institutes of HealthAwards: UL1RR024986, DP1OD003312, R01MH076136
- NINational Institute on AgingAwards: AG030311, R01 AG030311
- NINational Institute of Mental HealthAwards: UL1RR024986, R01MH076136
- NINational Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities