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      Emotional Objectivity: Neural Representations of Emotions and Their Interaction with Cognition.

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          Recent advances in our understanding of information states in the human brain have opened a new window into the brain's representation of emotion. While emotion was once thought to constitute a separate domain from cognition, current evidence suggests that all events are filtered through the lens of whether they are good or bad for us. Focusing on new methods of decoding information states from brain activation, we review growing evidence that emotion is represented at multiple levels of our sensory systems and infuses perception, attention, learning, and memory. We provide evidence that the primary function of emotional representations is to produce unified emotion, perception, and thought (e.g., "That is a good thing") rather than discrete and isolated psychological events (e.g., "That is a thing. I feel good"). The emergent view suggests ways in which emotion operates as a fundamental feature of cognition, by design ensuring that emotional outcomes are the central object of perception, thought, and action.

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          Journal
          Annu Rev Psychol
          Annual review of psychology
          Annual Reviews
          1545-2085
          0066-4308
          Jan 04 2020
          : 71
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Psychology, Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z3, Canada.
          [2 ] Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York 13902, USA.
          [3 ] Section of Brain Function Information, Supportive Center for Brain Research, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Aichi 4448585, Japan.
          [4 ] Department of Human Development, Human Neuroscience Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA; email: anderson@cornell.edu.
          Article
          10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-051044
          31610131
          a15881cd-d12c-46bc-bc89-ead9e576f1e1
          History

          decoding emotion,emotion,cognitive neuroscience,cognition,affective neuroscience

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