Emotions in the Brain (IMAGE)

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Emotions in the Brain

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Illustration of how emotions are represented in the brain according to the findings of the study. Results revealed the existence of an "emotionotopic" mapping in the right temporo-parietal territories, associated to the the complex and multifaceted subjective emotional experience elicited by watching the Forrest Gump movie.

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Luca Cecchetti, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

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