The Brain Basis of Positive and Negative Affect: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of the Human Neuroimaging Literature.

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Emotion and the Prefrontal Cortex: An Integrative Review (2017, background): “Finally, the medial OFC is activated by stimuli that elicit negative relative to neutral affect (Chikazoe et al., 2014; de la Vega et al., 2016; Lindquist et al., 2016), which is inconsistent with the idea that greater medial OFC activation primarily signals positive subjective value.”
EEG Based Emotion Recognition by Combining Functional Connectivity Network and Local Activations (2019, background): “6, the negative emotion shows denser differential network linkages compared to the positive emotion in gamma band, which indicates that negative stimuli recruits relatively more attention resources than positive stimuli [55].”
Stereo‐Electroencephalography Reveals Dynamic Spatio‐Spectral Signatures of Negative Emotions: A Distributed Circuit Mechanism Involving Amygdala–Cingulate–Hippocampus–Orbitofrontal Networks (2025, unknown): “Conversely, delta-band PLV increased in the Amy-ACC-Hip-OFC network, indicating enhanced low-frequency synchronization for cross-regional integration of emotional information (Lindquist et al. 2016; Dang et al. 2022).”