Table 1.

Studies decoding patterns of BOLD fMRI response into distinct emotions.

Said et al. 2010	Categorical	Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness, Happiness, Surprise	Perception	Visual	Multiple a priori regions of interest	Logistic regression (linear)	Run
Pessoa and Padmala 2007	Categorical	Fear, No Fear	Perception	Visual	Multiple a priori regions of interest	SVM (linear and nonlinear)	Trial
Ethofer et al. 2009	Categorical	Anger, Sadness, Joy, Relief, Neutral	Perception	Auditory	Single a priori region of interest	SVM (linear)	Trial
Kotz et al. 2012	Categorical	Anger, Sadness, Happiness, Surprise, Neutral	Perception	Auditory	Whole brain searchlight	SVM (linear)	Run
Baucom et al. 2012	Dimensional	P, N or LA, HA or HAN, LAN, LAP, HAP	Experience	Visual	Whole brain	Logistic regression (linear)	Subject, run
Rolls et al. 2009	Dimensional	P, N	Experience	Thermal	Multiple a priori regions of interest	Probability estimation, multilayer perceptron, SVM (linear)	Trial
Sitaram et al. 2011	Categorical	Happiness, Disgust or Sadness, Disgust, Happiness	Experience	Imagery	Whole brain and multiple a priori regions of interest	SVM (linear)	Subject, run
Kassam et al. 2013	Categorical	Anger, Disgust, Envy, Fear, Hapiness, Lust, Pride, Sadness, Shame	Experience	Imagery	Whole brain	Gaussian Naïve Bayes (linear)	Subject, trial

Note. P = positive, N = negative, LA = low arousal, HA = high arousal, HAN = high arousal negative, LAN = low arousal negative, LAP = low arousal positive, HAP = high arousal positive, SVM = support vector machine