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Affective and motivational control of vision

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Vuilleumier, Patrik·2015·Current Opinion in Neurology
DOI 10.1097/wco.0000000000000159
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Purpose of review It is increasingly recognized that affective values associated with visual stimuli can influence visual perception, attention, and eye movements. Recent research has begun to uncover the brain mechanisms mediating these phenomena. The present review summarizes the main paradigms and findings demonstrating emotional and motivational influences on visual processing. Recent findings Several pathways have been identified for enhancing neural responses of cortical visual areas to stimuli with intrinsic emotional value (e.g., facial expressions, social scenes, and others), including projections from the amygdala and ascending modulatory neurotransmitter systems from the brainstem. These pathways can guide attention and gaze to emotionally salient information with either negative (threatening) or positive (rewarding) associations. In addition, abundant research in recent years suggests that probabilistic reward learning can lead to powerful biases in visual attention and saccade control through subcortical pathways connecting visual areas with basal ganglia and superior colliculus. Time-resolved neuroimaging using electroencephalography or magnetoencephalography has begun to tackle the time course of these effects, and can now be complemented by neuroimaging and neurophysiology recordings in monkey. Summary These findings have implications for understanding and assessing affective biases in perception and attention in patients with psychiatric disorders, such as ph…

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Authors
Vuilleumier, P.
Affiliations
University of Geneva (CH)
Corresponding author
Vuilleumier, Patrik
ORCID
Vuilleumier, Patrik
Venue
Current Opinion in Neurology
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Published
2015-02
Volume
28
Issue
1
Pages
29-35
ISSN
1350-7540 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1097/wco.0000000000000159
OpenAlex
W2004805863
Cited by
126
References
76
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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cc-by
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Funders
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
Keywords
visual attention, saccade control, eye movements, amygdala, probabilistic reward learning, basal ganglia, superior colliculus, emotional salience, facial expressions, social scenes, time course of attention, mental illness
MeSH terms
Affect, Attention, Humans, Motivation, Reward, Visual Perception, Vision, Binocular

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