We don’t just react emotionally to what we see. What we see is shaped by what we feel, a new study suggests.
When looking at faces displaying fearful expressions, people with intact brains or with brain damage that spares the amygdala, an emotion-regulating neural structure, exhibit pronounced activity in certain parts of the brain that deal with visual information, say neuroscientist Patrik Vuilleumier of the University of Geneva in Switzerland and his colleagues.
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