Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (Jan 2014)

Neural correlates of emotion: Acquisition versus innate view point

  • Rajakumari P Reddy,
  • Sakshi P Korde,
  • Silpa Kanungo,
  • A Thamodharan,
  • Jamuna Rajeswaran,
  • Rose Dawn Bharath,
  • Neeraj Upadhya,
  • Rajanikanth Panda,
  • Shobini L Rao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.140720
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 36, no. 4
pp. 385 – 391

Abstract

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Background: Emotion entails cognitive processes that may either be conscious or unconscious. Emotions influence all aspects of cognition. Aim: The aim of the following study was to study the effect of education on neural correlates of emotions in healthy normal volunteers. Materials and Methods: Sample consisted total of 61 healthy young educated adults in the age range of 18-40 years. The volunteers were asked to view neutral, pleasant and unpleasant pictures from international affective picture system in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. Statistics Analysis: Rest-active block design paradigm, functional MRI results analyzed in statistical parametric mapping 8. Results and Conclusion: Activations associated with emotions were present in cerebral and cerebellar regions. Education influences emotion.

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