Giada Lettieri, Giacomo Handjaras, Elisa M Cappello, Francesca Setti, Davide Bottari, Valentina Bruno, Matteo Diano, Andrea Leo, Carla Tinti, Francesca Garbarini, Pietro Pietrini, Emiliano Ricciardi, Luca Cecchetti
Emotion and perception are tightly intertwined, as affective experiences often arise from the appraisal of sensory information. Nonetheless, whether the brain encodes emotional instances using a sensory-specific code or in a more abstract manner is unclear. Here, we answer this question by measuring the association between emotion ratings collected during a unisensory or multisensory presentation of a full-length movie and brain activity recorded in typically developed, congenitally blind and congenitally deaf participants...
March 8, 2024: Science Advances