Anatomical Substrates for Cognitive-Emotional Interactions
Anatomical Substrates for Cognitive-Emotional Interactions
This chapter illustrates how the brain’s architecture exhibits extensive avenues for information interaction and integration, and how its underlying structure provides the substrate for the coordinated flow of information that characterizes complex behaviors. It focuses on architectural features of several brain regions that have been linked to emotion, including two subcortical regions, the hypothalamus and the amygdala. The chapter also discusses features of the basal forebrain, a system historically linked with arousal processes, but suggested to be an important region for cognitive-emotional communication. Finally, it reviews anatomical properties of prefrontal cortex and closely related areas, including medial and lateral prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, and the anterior insula.
Keywords: hypothalamus, basal forebrain, amygdala, cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, anterior insula, prefrontal cortex
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