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A grid-like basis for affective space in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex

2026-05-04

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Human emotional experiences vary widely in everyday life, yet they are systematically organized within a continuous affective space defined by valence and arousal. Although this circumplex organization has shaped decades of research, its neural implementation remains unclear. Here, we asked whether abstract emotion concepts are encoded using grid-like coordinate principles in the human brain. During fMRI, particip...

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Literature Corpus work: e4575ed0-ff17-5d2d-9cfe-422d57f58c8b
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.30.721013

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