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      Decoding the emotional valence of future thoughts

      Devitt, Aleea L.; Thakral, Preston P.; Schacter, Daniel L.
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       10.1080/17588928.2021.1906638
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      Devitt, A. L., Thakral, P. P., & Schacter, D. L. (2021). Decoding the emotional valence of future thoughts. Cognitive Neuroscience, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2021.1906638
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/14300
      Abstract
      Affective future thinking allows us to prepare for future outcomes, but we know little about neural representation of emotional future simulations. We used a multi-voxel pattern analysis to determine whether patterns of neural activity can reliably distinguish between positive and negative future simulations. Neural patterning in the anterior cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortices distinguished positive from negative future simulations, indicating that these regions code for the emotional valence of future events. These results support prior findings that anterior medial regions contain representations of emotions across various stimuli, and contribute to identifying potential rewarding outcomes of future events. More broadly, these results demonstrate that the phenomenological features of future thinking can be decoded using neural activity.
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      2021
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      Journal Article
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      Informa UK Limited
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      This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cognitive Neuroscience on April 30, 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17588928.2021.1906638.
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