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Seeing Through Feeling: Dynamic Interplay Between Emotion and Visual Perception
Nika Vukosav1, Krista Zuber1, Sara Tomas1
1Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Brain Sciences
|July 28, 2026
Summary
Vision is not just about seeing; it
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Affective Science
Background:
- Traditional view: Vision as linear, bottom-up sensory processing.
- New perspective: Vision involves bidirectional dialogue with emotional systems.
- Key insight: Affective neuroscience and cognitive psychology reveal vision's emotional integration.
Purpose of the Study:
- Synthesize neurobiological architectures of vision-emotion interaction.
- Analyze top-down emotional influence on sensory processing.
- Examine bottom-up environmental influence on emotional states.
Main Methods:
- Review of neurobiological pathways (amygdalocortical, frontoparietal, insular).
- Analysis of reciprocal influences between visual input and emotional states.
- Integration within predictive coding and active inference frameworks.
Main Results:
- Emotional states recalibrate sensory processing, prioritizing salience.
- Environmental features rapidly modulate emotional states via visual streams.
- Affective states act as precision weights in perceptual inference.
Conclusions:
- Conscious vision is an affective construction.
- Visual aberrations can serve as diagnostic markers for mood disorders.
- Retinal changes may indicate neurodegenerative pathology.
Keywords:
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