Figure 3.

Interactions between emotion and perception. (A) Visual processing is suggested to be modulated by affective value via several mechanisms, including those involving projections from the amygdala, basal forebrain, orbitofrontal cortex, and possibly hypothalamus (not shown). (B) Another class of modulatory mechanisms relies on interactions between “evaluative” sites (shown in color) and “control” sites (shown in white), the latter located in fronto-parietal cortex and known to exert top-down influences on visual processing. Dotted lines indicate possibly indirect connections. All locations are approximate, and the positions of the amygdala, basal forebrain, hypothalamus, and pulvinar are shown on the lateral surface for schematic purposes. Abbreviations: A, amygdala; BF, basal forebrain; FEF, frontal eye field; Hyp, hypothalamus; IPS, intraparietal sulcus; OFC, orbitofrontal cortex; Pul, pulvinar.