Impact of emotion on consciousness: positive stimuli enhance conscious reportability.

Emotion and reward have been proposed to be closely linked to conscious experience, but empirical data are lacking. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) plays a central role in the hedonic dimension of conscious experience; thus potentially a key region in interactions between emotion and consciousne...

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Main Authors: Kristine Rømer Thomsen, Hans C Lou, Morten Joensson, Jonathan A Hyam, Peter Holland, Christine E Parsons, Katherine S Young, Arne Møller, Alan Stein, Alex L Green, Morten L Kringelbach, Tipu Z Aziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3073993?pdf=render