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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Apr 25;20(6):444–455. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.03.011

Figure 1. Overlapping Yet Distinct Profiles of Amygdala Activation Predict Experimental Manipulations of Arousal, Unpleasantness, and Fear.

Figure 1

(A) Probabilistic reverse-inference maps from an automated meta-analysis of the neuroimaging literature [62] indicate the probability of a study including the terms ‘arousal’ (227 studies), ‘unpleasant’ (106 studies), or ‘fear’ (298 studies) given the observed activation. Color maps reflect z-scores and are additive as indicated by the legend; the white region indicates voxels predictive of all three processes. (B) Spatial cross-correlations of amygdala voxels [63] that commonly predict arousal, unpleasantness, and fear (displayed in white). Each point corresponds to a single voxel and solid lines indicate the best least-squares fit. Despite shared localization, patterns of predictive scores for arousal or unpleasantness explain relatively little variance across voxels predictive of fear.