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The perception of a stimulus can result in an emotional response, as we all know, but modulation of perception by emotion has been more difficult to demonstrate. A new study combines imaging and patient data to point to an anatomical substrate for such an effect, raising important implications regarding how sensory-processing impairments might arise in affective disorders.

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Figure 1: Anatomical connections of the amygdala with visual cortices in the monkey.

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    Ralph Adolphs

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Adolphs, R. Emotional vision. Nat Neurosci 7, 1167–1168 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1104-1167

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