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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2007 2(2):71-72; doi:10.1093/scan/nsm022
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Feeling emotional: the amygdala links emotional perception and experience

Adam K. Anderson

Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
Ontario
Toronto M5S 3G3
Canada

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The term ‘emotion’ most commonly denotes a specific phenomenal state, such as the solemn weightiness associated with sadness or the lightness of being associated with joy. Human affective neuroscience has begun to pin down the elusive neuroanatomy of these most experientially prominent of mental experiences. One of the brain structures consistently associated with emotional functioning is the amygdaloid complex (Phan et al., 2002). Numerous neuroimaging studies have shown the amygdala varies with emotional experience in both healthy and mood disordered populations, pointing to its central role in emotional phenomenology. One difficulty with this apparent association is that emotion like cognition is not a . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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