1998/05/01 by Richard J. Davidson · 4 citations
Neuroscience · Psychology · #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Mental Health Research Topics #Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/026999398379628
openalex publication_date 1998/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Individual differences in emotional reactivity or affective style can be decomposed into more elementary constituents. Several separable of affective style are identified such as the threshold for reactivity, peak amplitude of response, the rise time to peak and the recovery time. latter two characteristics constitute components of affective chronometry The circuitry that underlies two fundamental forms of motivation and and withdrawal-related processes-is described. Data on differences in functional activity in certain components of these are next reviewed, with an emphasis on the nomological network of surrounding individual differences in asymmetric prefrontal The relevance of such differences for understanding the nature affective dysfunction in affective disorders is then considered. The ends by considering what the prefrontal cortex “does” in certain of affective style and highlights some of the important questions for future research.