New study shows how the brain reacts emotionally to the real world

Two of the 1,620 emotionally charged images shown to volunteers in the study. Adobe stock image.

July 18, 2024

A new study from the labs of HWNI members Sonia Bishop and Jack Gallant, published in Nature Communications, sheds light on how the emotional content of images is represented in the human brain, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. This research could make it easier to study how individuals differ in how they process emotional stimuli, including those with autism or other neurological or psychiatric conditions. Berkeley Neuroscience PhD alum Alexander Huth is a co-author on the paper.

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