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SUBMITTER: Lindquist KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4329228 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lindquist Kristen A KA Wager Tor D TD Kober Hedy H Bliss-Moreau Eliza E Barrett Lisa Feldman LF
The Behavioral and brain sciences 20120601 3
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 psyc ...[more]