Multiple Mechanisms of Consciousness: The Neural Correlates of Emotional Awareness
The Journal of Neuroscience July 28, 2010 Jayna M. Amting, Steven G. Greening, Derek G. V. Mitchell
Emotional stimuli, including facial expressions, are thought to gain rapid and privileged access to processing resources in the brain. Despite this access, we are conscious of only a fraction of the myriad of emotion-related cues we face everyday. It remains unclear, therefore, what the relationship is between activity in neural regions associated with emotional representation and the...