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Activation of the visual cortex in motivated attention
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Functional activation (measured with fMRI) in occipital cortex was more extensive when participants view pictures strongly related to primary motive states (i.e., victims of violent death, viewer-directed threat, and erotica). This functional activity was greater than that observed for less intense emotional (i.e., happy families or angry faces) or neutral images (i.e., household objects, neutral faces). Both the extent and strength of functional activity were related to the judged affective arousal of the different picture contents, and the same pattern of functional activation was present whether pictures were presented in color or in grayscale. It is suggested that more extensive visual system activation reflects "motivated attention," in which appetitive or defensive motivational engagement directs attention and facilitates perceptual processing of survival-relevant stimuli.
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- Authors
- Bradley, M. M., Sabatinelli, D., Lang, P. J., Fitzsimmons, J. R., King, W., & Desai, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Florida (US)
- Venue
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 117
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 369-380
- ISSN
- 0735-7044 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0084
- OpenAlex
- W1992467985
- Cited by
- 528
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 16 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 36 · 2012: 37
- FWCI
- 9.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH052384, MH37757, P50 MH 52384)
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (DE 13956, R01DE013956)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- motivated attention, visual cortex activation, occipital cortex, emotional arousal, emotional pictures, erotic literature, appetitive motivation, defensive motivation, emotional face processing
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Arousal, Attention, Brain Mapping, Emotions, Facial Expression, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Reaction Time, Visual Cortex
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