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The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning

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  • Joseph J. Paton

    (Columbia University)

  • Marina A. Belova

    (Columbia University)

  • Sara E. Morrison

    (Columbia University)

  • C. Daniel Salzman

    (Columbia University
    Columbia University
    Columbia University)

Abstract

Feeling by numbers The amygdala is recognized as a part of the brain associated with emotions such as fear and pleasure, and also with reinforcement learning, by which sensory stimuli become associated with positive or negative values. The way that neural circuits assign emotional value to visual stimuli is perhaps the most elusive aspect of this system experimentally. Now a quantitative analysis of primate amygdala neural activity during learning has identified different amygdala neuronal populations that encode the positive or negative value of visual stimuli. What is more, these signals predict when emotional learning will occur. Thus amygdala neural signals can form the basis of behavioural and physiological responses to visual stimuli endowed with emotional meaning.

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  • Joseph J. Paton & Marina A. Belova & Sara E. Morrison & C. Daniel Salzman, 2006. "The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning," Nature, Nature, vol. 439(7078), pages 865-870, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:439:y:2006:i:7078:d:10.1038_nature04490
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04490
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