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. 2003 Aug 14;39(4):581-3.
doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(03)00504-x.

Dissociating intensity from valence as sensory inputs to emotion

Adam K Anderson  1 , Noam Sobel
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Dissociating intensity from valence as sensory inputs to emotion

Adam K Anderson et al. Neuron. .
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Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Small and colleagues used fMRI to find evidence for a neural segregation of two dimensions underlying human gustatory experience: intensity and valence. These results join several recent reports that challenge long-held notions regarding amygdaloid representation of negatively valenced events.

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