Emotion and the brain: multiple roads are better than one

Emotion and the brain: multiple roads are better than one

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12, 425 (2011). doi:10.1038/nrn2920-c2

Authors: Luiz Pessoa & Ralph Adolphs

We have recently provided a critical evaluation of the idea that a subcortical pathway through the superior colliculus and pulvinar to the amygdala has a prominent and privileged role in processing affective visual stimuli (Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a ‘low road’ to ‘many