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Neural systems for recognizing emotion

Adolphs, Ralph·2002·Current Opinion in Neurobiology

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Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices. Recognition of fear may draw especially on the amygdala and the detection of disgust may rely on the insula and basal ganglia. Two important mechanisms for recognition of emotions are the construction of a simulation of the observed emotion in the perceiver, and the modulation of sensory cortices via top-down influences.

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  • In conjunction with the SII cortex, these regions have been argued to serve as somatic markers, enabling a cortical representation of body state.

    “In conjunction with the SII cortex, these regions have been argued to serve as somatic markers (Damasio, 1999;Adolphs, 2002), enabling a cortical representation of body state (Damasio, 1999;Craig, 2004).”
  • The right insula is the best documented region in supporting viscerosomatic awareness.

    “Out of the potential posterolateral seed regions, the right insula was chosen as being the best documented in supporting viscerosomatic awareness (Damasio, 1999;Adolphs, 2002;Craig, 2004;Critchley et al., 2004).”
  • The proposed model extends the hierarchical visual representation of the CNN and applies it for multimodal emotional state recognition using face expression and body motion.

    “Based on the multimodal representation of visual stimuli described by Gu et al. (2013), and in the hierarchical representation present in the human brain as discussed by Adolphs (2002), we propose a novel CNN-based model for automatic emotion recognition.Our model extends the hierarchical visual representation of the CNN, and applies it for multimodal emotional state recognition using face express”
  • The brain is capable of integrating multimodal information and generating a representation for visual stimuli based on all of them together.

    “The brain is also capable to integrate this multimodal information and generate a representation for the visual stimuli based on all of them together.”

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Authors
Adolphs, R.
Affiliations
University of Iowa (US)
Corresponding author
Adolphs, Ralph
Venue
Current Opinion in Neurobiology
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2002-04
Volume
12
Issue
2
Pages
169-177
ISSN
0959-4388 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2012289576
Cited by
1,933
References
103
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Current Opinion in Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
emotion recognition, neural systems, amygdala, occipitotemporal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, basal ganglia, fear recognition, disgust, top-down modulation, sensory cortex
MeSH terms
Amygdala, Basal Ganglia, Brain, Emotions, Facial Expression, Fear, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Parietal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Visual Cortex, Recognition, Psychology

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