Dissecting abstract, modality-specific and experience-dependent coding of affect in the human brain.

ABSTRACT: Emotion and perception are tightly intertwined, as affective experiences often arise from the appraisal of sensory information. Nonetheless, whether the brain encodes emotional instances using a sensory-specific code or in a more abstract manner is unclear. Here, we answer this question by measuring the association between emotion ratings collected during a unisensory or multisensory presentation of a full-length movie and brain activity recorded in typically developed, congenitally blind and congenitally deaf participants. Emotional instances are encoded in a vast network encompassing sensory, prefrontal, and temporal cortices. Within this network, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex stores a categorical representation of emotion independent of modality and previous sensory experience, and

SUBMITTER: Lettieri G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10923499 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature