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SUBMITTER: Lettieri G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6895053 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lettieri Giada G Handjaras Giacomo G Ricciardi Emiliano E Leo Andrea A Papale Paolo P Betta Monica M Pietrini Pietro P Cecchetti Luca L
Nature communications 20191205 1
Humans use emotions to decipher complex cascades of internal events. However, which mechanisms link descriptions of affective states to brain activity is unclear, with evidence supporting either local or distributed processing. A biologically favorable alternative is provided by the notion of gradient, which postulates the isomorphism between functional representations of stimulus features and cortical distance. Here, we use fMRI activity evoked by an emotionally charged movie and continuous rat ...[more]