Journal
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 364, Issue 1521, Pages 1325-1334Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0312
Keywords
affect; emotion; perception; prediction; amygdala; orbitofrontal cortex
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Funding
- NIH [R01NS050615, DP1OD003312]
- National Institute of Aging [AG030311]
- National Science Foundation [BCS 0721260, BCS 0527440]
- Army Research Institute [W91WAW]
- Cattell
- American Philosophical Society
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People see with feeling. We 'gaze', 'behold', 'stare', 'gape' and 'glare'. In this paper, we develop the hypothesis that the brain's ability to see in the present incorporates a representation of the affective impact of those visual sensations in the past. This representation makes up part of the brain's prediction of what the visual sensations stand for in the present, including how to act on them in the near future. The affective prediction hypothesis implies that responses signalling an object's salience, relevance or value do not occur as a separate step after the object is identified. Instead, affective responses support vision from the very moment that visual stimulation begins.
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