There is a top-down mood for change in Australia".
Harvard's administration was strictly "top down".
Top down, pushing buttons".
Top, down, starting with hair.
For the other emotions, top-down modulation may introduce mood bias or selective effects.
So, what may be the functional significance of mood-dependent top-down modulation of visual processing?
Mood dependency of top-down processing would go against the idea that top-down modulations are purely 'predictive' or 'Bayesian' in nature: the mood of the observer has obviously no effect on the likelihood of encountering mood-congruent emotional stimuli.
Modern brain imaging studies have supported a pronounced role of cortical-limbic top-down mechanisms in the regulation of mood and depression therapy, including the positive effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on depression [ 40, 41].
In the present study, we further investigate the effect of mood, as induced by music, on top-down processing of visual information.
While both manipulations influence affect, it may be that ATD mediates emotions and influences "hot" cognition via a bottom-up mechanism, whereas mood influences "cold" cognition via a top-down mechanism.
