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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 17.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2010 Feb 24;1(2):293–300. doi: 10.1002/wcs.41

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Assessing specificity using the multilevel kernel density analysis (MKDA). Differences between positive and negative valence using 240 CIMs from 95 studies of emotional experience are shown. Positive experience was associated with relatively greater activation in rostral-dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (rdACC), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), hypothalamus (Hy), ventral striatum (vStr), basal forebrain (BF), and the ventral tegmental area (VTA). Conversely, negative experience was associated with greater activation in amygdala (Amy), anterior insula (aIns), hippocampus (Hipp), periaqueductal gray (PAG), and more posterior portions of ventral striatum (vStr).