Common effects of emotional valence, arousal and attention on neural activation during visual processing of pictures.

By Richard D. Lane, P. Chua, R. J. Dolan. 1999

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “Unexpected stimuli may garner more attention, and increased attention can lead to more processing and higher activation (e.g., Bradley et al., 2003; Lane et al., 1999).”
Event-Related Potentials, Emotion, and Emotion Regulation: An Integrative Review (2010, background): “…Whalen et al., 1998), projects to the occipital cortex (Amaral & Price, 1984; Freese & Amaral, 2005, 2006), and likely plays a role in biasing visual information so that emotionally significant information is preferentially processed (Bradley et al., 2003; Lane et al., 1999; Lane et al., 1997).”
Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods (2008, unknown): “Although we did not monitor eye movements during imaging, emotional and neutral images have not been found to result in differential eye movements (Lane et al., 1999; Lang et al., 1998).”
The Neural Correlates of Moral Sensitivity: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Basic and Moral Emotions (2002, background): “…condition was contrasted with the neutral one, additional activations were observed in the amygdala, thalamus, and extrastriate visual cortex, brain regions shown in previous studies to be activated by processing visual stimuli associated with unpleasant emotions (Lane et al., 1999) (Fig.”
Automatic and intentional brain responses during evaluation of trustworthiness of faces (2002, background): “Attentional and emotional manipulations are known to alter neural responses in early visual corte”