Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages 655-665Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8986.00067
Keywords
emotion; affective style; affective neuroscience; prefrontal cortex; amygdala
Funding
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH40747, P50-MH61083, K05-MH00875, P50-MH52354, MH43454] Funding Source: Medline
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This article reviews the author's program of research on the neural substrates of emotion and affective style and their behavioral and peripheral biological correlates. Two core dimensions along which affect is organized are approach and withdrawal. Some of the key circuitry underlying approach and withdrawal components of emotion is reviewed with an emphasis on the role played by different sectors of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and amygdala. Affective style refers to individual differences in valence-specific features of emotional reactivity and regulation. The different parameters of affective style can be objectively measured using specific laboratory probes. Relations between individual differences in prefrontal and amygdala function and specific components of affective style are illustrated. The final section of the article concludes with a brief discussion of plasticity in the central circuitry of emotion and the possibility that this circuitry can be shaped by training experiences that might potentially promote a more resilient, positive affective style. The implications of this body of work for a broader conception of psychophysiology and for training the next generation of psychophysiologists are considered in the conclusion.
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