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Emotional vision

Nature Neuroscience volume 7, pages 1167–1168 (2004)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Anatomical connections of the amygdala with visual cortices in the monkey.

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