Studies of the brain mechanisms of emotion have typically focused on responses to prototypical elicitors of a 5-6 emotions, confounded by perceptual/semantic features. We used computational models to identify the neural substrates of emotional experience captured in fMRI responses to 2,185 videos. Our analyses revealed that dozens of video-evoked emotions are encoded in transmodal brain regions, where brain activity patterns during emotional experiences are aligned to specific emotions (not affective dimensions or visual/semantic features). (Horikawa et al., 2020, iScience)
