Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Emotionotopy in the human right temporo-parietal cortex

  • Giada Lettieri,
  • Giacomo Handjaras,
  • Emiliano Ricciardi,
  • Andrea Leo,
  • Paolo Papale,
  • Monica Betta,
  • Pietro Pietrini,
  • Luca Cecchetti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13599-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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People can experience a wide variety of emotions, and how the brain represents these varying affective states is a matter of debate. Here the authors show that coding mechanisms of emotions in right temporo-parietal cortex resemble those of low-level stimulus features in primary sensory regions.