Ralph Adolphs is in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 288-77 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA and the Department of Neurology, 200 Hawkins Drive, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. radolphs@hss.caltech.edu
The perception of a stimulus can result in an emotional response, as we all know, but modulation of perception by emotion has been more difficult to demonstrate. A new study combines imaging and patient data to point to an anatomical substrate for such an effect, raising important implications regarding how sensory-processing impairments might arise in affective disorders.
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