By PsyBlog, September 8, 2015
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They found that negative emotions have a ‘neural signature’ which a computer could learn.
Dr Luke Chang, who led the study, said:
“This means that brain imaging has the potential to accurately uncover how someone is feeling without knowing anything about them other than their brain activity.
This has enormous implications for improving our understanding of how emotions are generated and regulated, which have been notoriously difficult to define and measure.
In addition, these new types of neural measures may prove to be important in identifying when people are having abnormal emotional responses — for example, too much or too little — which might indicate broader issues with health and mental functioning.”
