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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Res (New York). 2010 SUMMER;77(2):659–678.

Figure 2. Hedonic Brain Circuitry.

Figure 2

The schematic figure shows the approximate sensorimotor, pleasure, and social brain regions in the adult brain. (a) Processing linked to the identification of and interaction with stimuli is carried out in the sensorimotor regions of the brain, (b) which are separate from the valence processing in the pleasure regions of the brain. (c) In addition to this pleasure processing, there is further higher-order processing of social situations (such as theory of mind) in widespread cortical regions. (d) The hedonic mammalian brain circuitry can be revealed using behavioral and subjective measures of pleasures in rodents and humans (Berridge and Kringelbach 2008).