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Representation of affect in sensory cortex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Vladimir Miskovic ,
Karl Kuntzelman ,
Junichi Chikazoe  and
Adam K. Anderson
Vladimir Miskovic
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902 miskovic@binghamton.edu kkuntze1@binghamton.edu
Karl Kuntzelman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902 miskovic@binghamton.edu kkuntze1@binghamton.edu
Junichi Chikazoe
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 aka47@cornell.edu Section of Brain Function Information, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan chikazoe@nips.ac.jp
Adam K. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Human Development, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 aka47@cornell.edu
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Abstract

Contemporary neuroscience suggests that perception is perhaps best understood as a dynamically iterative process that does not honor cleanly segregated “bottom-up” or “top-down” streams. We argue that there is substantial empirical support for the idea that affective influences infiltrate the earliest reaches of sensory processing and even that primitive internal affective dimensions (e.g., goodness-to-badness) are represented alongside physical dimensions of the external world.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e252
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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