Temporal dynamics of affective scene processing in the healthy adult human brain.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how the brain distinguishes emotional from neutral scenes is crucial for advancing brain-computer interfaces, enabling real-time emotion detection for faster, more effective responses, and improving treatments for emotional disorders like depression and anxiety. However, inconsistent research findings have arisen from differences in study settings, such as variations in the time windows, brain regions, and emotion categories examined across studies. This review sought to compile the existing literature on the timing at which the adult brain differentiates basic affective from neutral scenes in less than one second, as previous studies have consistently shown that the brain can begin recognizing emotions within just a few milliseconds. The review includes studies that used ele

SUBMITTER: Vogeley AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11810608 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature