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GANEing on emotion and emotion regulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Thomas D. Hull*
Affiliation:
Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY [email protected]

Abstract

The function of emotion and its underlying neural mechanisms are often left underspecified. I extend the GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) model by examining its success in accounting for findings in emotion regulation. I also identify points of alignment with construction models of emotion and with the hypothesis that emotion states function to push neural activity toward rapid and efficient action.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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