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What can neuroimaging meta-analyses really tell us about the nature of emotion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2012

Stephan Hamann
Stephan Hamann
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322. shamann@emory.eduhttp://hamann.weebly.com/
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Abstract

In Vytal and Hamann (2010) we reported a neuroimaging meta-analysis that found that basic emotions can be distinguished by their brain activation correlates, in marked contrast to Lindquist et al.'s conclusions in the target article. Here, I discuss implications of these findings for understanding emotion, outline limitations of using meta-analyses and neuroimaging as the sole basis for deciding between emotion views, and suggest that these views are essentially compatible and could be adapted and combined into an integrated emotion framework.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , June 2012 , pp. 150 - 152
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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