Emotion representations in context: maturation and convergence pathways

Abstract

How does the human brain develop stable emotion representations? According to recent work by Camacho et al., neural representations of contextualized emotional cues are distinct and fairly stable by mid-to-late childhood and activation patterns become increasingly similar between individuals during adolescence. Here, I propose a framework for investigating contextualized emotion processing.

Keywords: convergence; development; emotion; fMRI; movie; representation.