A central, unresolved problem in affective neuroscience is understanding how emotions are
represented in nervous system activity. After prior localization approaches largely failed …

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies have become increasingly popular
both with clinicians and researchers as they are capable of providing unique insights into …

Understanding how emotions are represented neurally is a central aim of affective
neuroscience. Despite decades of neuroimaging efforts addressing this question, it remains …

In everyday life, multiple sensory channels jointly trigger emotional experiences and one
channel may alter processing in another channel. For example, seeing an emotional facial …

Arousal plays a central role in a wide variety of phenomena, including wakefulness,
autonomic function, affect and emotion. Despite its importance, it remains unclear as to how …

The neural bases of affective experience remain elusive. Early neuroscience models of
affect searched for specific brain regions that uniquely carried out the computations that …

This study tested for neural representations of valence that are shared across visual and
auditory modalities referred to as modality-general representations. On a given trial …

The perception of opportunities and threats in complex visual scenes represents one of the
main functions of the human visual system. The underlying neurophysiology is often studied …

Highlights•We consider whether sensory areas directly maintain population codes of
valence.•Brain imaging evidence suggests some valence representations are not shared …

Meta‐analytic and experimental studies investigating the neural basis of emotion often
compare functional activation in different emotional induction contexts, assessing evidence …