Our findings identify a circuitry (see Figure 1), that is primarily involved in the processing of emotional stimuli [ 29, 32- 41] and complex adaptive, motivated behaviors, including the regulation of emotion [ 20, 22, 42- 46].
Secondly, we also investigated the proposition that executive control in general, and in the processing of emotional material in particular, is related to depressive rumination and the emotion regulation strategy of cognitive reappraisal.
The processing of emotional stimuli is a complex and non-linear multi-stage process.
"If you have thinning in this portion of the brain, it interferes with the processing of emotional stimuli," Dr. Peterson said.
The present study examines the processing of emotional facial expressions (happy, angry, and sad) in depressed and non-depressed adults.
However, heterogeneity of extant findings suggests that it may be informative to elucidate individual difference factors that modulate the processing of emotional information.
These results support the idea of distinct neural systems subserving face processing, and agree with a role of the right hemisphere for the processing of emotional expressions.
In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to compare the processing of emotional facial expressions between monkeys and humans.
Gender differences observed in the processing of emotional stimuli could then originate at the attentional level of the information processing system.
For example, the visceral responses characteristic of various emotions — the internal changes that give rise to the corresponding "gut feelings" — normally occur as the output of the processing of emotional stimuli.
Given the differences in latency and distribution, we conclude that the processing of emotional and linguistic prosody relies at least partly on differing neural mechanisms and that emotional prosodic aspects of language are processed in a prioritized processing stream.
