Emotional perception: Meta-analyses of face and natural scene processing

►Human emotional perception research is conducted primarily with face and natural scene stimuli and fMRI ►No prior meta-analysis of emotional face studies-100 fMRI reports are analyzed here ►After controlling for simple perceptual effects (contrast with neutral face, neutral scene), are the effects of emotion consistent across emotional faces and scenes? ►Emotional face and scene stimuli yield overlapping, adjacent, and unique clusters of activity across cortical and subcortical structures ►Despite Donderian contrast methods, unique activation effects are attributable to the specific media of presentation