Distinct iEEG activity patterns in temporal-limbic and prefrontal sites induced by emotional intentionality.

ABSTRACT: Our emotions tend to be directed towards someone or something. Such emotional intentionality calls for the integration between two streams of information; abstract hedonic value and its associated concrete content. In a previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study we found that the combination of these two streams, as modeled by short emotional music excerpts and neutral film clips, was associated with synergistic activation in both temporal-limbic (TL) and ventral-lateral PFC (vLPFC) regions. This additive effect implies the integration of domain-specific 'affective' and 'cognitive' processes. Yet, the low temporal resolution of the fMRI limits the characterization of such cross-domain integration. To this end, we complemented the fMRI data with intracranial electroencephal

SUBMITTER: Singer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4840261 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature