Emotion and the motivational brain

By Peter J. Lang, Margaret M. Bradley. Biological Psychology, 2009

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Psychophysiological and neuroscience studies of emotional processing undertaken by investigators at the University of Florida Laboratory of the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention (CSEA) are reviewed, with a focus on reflex reactions, neural structures and functional circuits that mediate emotional expression. The theoretical view shared among the investigators is that expressed emotions are founded on motivational circuits in the brain that developed early in evolutionary history to ensure the survival of individuals and their progeny. These circuits react to appetitive and aversive environmental and memorial cues, mediating appetitive and defensive reflexes that tune sensory systems and mobilize the organism for action and underly negative and positive affects. The research reviewed here assesses the reflex physiology of emotion, both autonomic and somatic, studying affects evoked in picture perception, memory imagery, and in the context of tangible reward and punishment, and using the electroencephalograph (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), explores the brain’s motivational circuits that determine human emotion.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Sleep and emotion regulation: An organizing, integrative review. (2017, background): “More precisely, an emotion is a multi-faceted response to internal or external stimuli that allows the individual tomeet the demands of their environment through changes in their subjective experience, behavior, and physiology [12].”
What a Feeling: The Role of Immediate and Anticipated Emotions in Risky Decisions (2013, background): “If an option clearly elicits positive feelings overall, arousal will energize an individual to participate in it (Lang & Bradley, 2010).”
Emotion Regulation: Current Status and Future Prospects (2015, background): “Emotions also involve autonomic and neuroendocrine changes that anticipate (and provide metabolic support for) emotion-related behaviors, and also follow them, as a consequence of the emotion-related somatic activity (Kreibig, 2010; Lang & Bradley, 2010; Levenson, 1992).”
Merely Being with you Increases My Attention to Luxury Products: Using EEG to Understand Consumers’ Emotional Experience with Luxury Branded Products (2015, background): “Furthermore, in the context of affective perceptual processing, the LPP emotional effect is assumed to indicate sustained enhanced attention allocation and motivational significance to emotional visual stimuli (Bradley et al. 2003; Lang and Bradley 2010).”
The Emergence and Stability of the Attentional Bias to Fearful Faces in Infancy (2013, background): “The HR deceleration response to threat-related stimuli, on the other hand, may more closely reflect an obligatory, subcortically mediated attentional orient ng response that is less dependent on cortical processing (Bradley, 2009; Lang & Bradley, 2010).”
An Appraisal-Driven Componential Approach to the Emotional Brain (2018, neutral): “Adaptational and neurophysiological theories (Lang & Bradley, 2010; Panksepp, 1998).”