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Neural Correlates of Emotion: Acquisition versus Innate View Point
Rajakumari P Reddy1, Sakshi P Korde1, Silpa Kanungo2
1Department of Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Centre, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Background:
Emotion entails cognitive processes that may either be conscious or unconscious. Emotions influence all aspects of cognition.
Aim:
The aim of the following study was to study the effect of education on neural correlates of emotions in healthy normal volunteers.
Materials And Methods:
Sample consisted total of 61 healthy young educated adults in the age range of 18-40 years. The volunteers were asked to view neutral, pleasant and unpleasant pictures from international affective picture system in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.
Statistics Analysis:
Rest-active block design paradigm, functional MRI results analyzed in statistical parametric mapping 8.
Results And Conclusion:
Activations associated with emotions were present in cerebral and cerebellar regions. Education influences emotion.
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