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The role of hedonics in the Human Affectome
Becker, S Bräscher, AK Bannister, S Bensafi, M Calma-Birling, D Chan, RCK Eerola, T Ellingsen, DM Ferdenzi, C Hanson, JL
Becker, S
Bräscher, AK
Bannister, S
Bensafi, M
Calma-Birling, D
Chan, RCK
Eerola, T
Ellingsen, DM
Ferdenzi, C
Hanson, JL
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2019-07-01
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10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.05.003
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© 2019 The Authors Experiencing pleasure and displeasure is a fundamental part of life. Hedonics guide behavior, affect decision-making, induce learning, and much more. As the positive and negative valence of feelings, hedonics are core processes that accompany emotion, motivation, and bodily states. Here, the affective neuroscience of pleasure and displeasure that has largely focused on the investigation of reward and pain processing, is reviewed. We describe the neurobiological systems of hedonics and factors that modulate hedonic experiences (e.g., cognition, learning, sensory input). Further, we review maladaptive and adaptive pleasure and displeasure functions in mental disorders and well-being, as well as the experience of aesthetics. As a centerpiece of the Human Affectome Project, language used to express pleasure and displeasure was also analyzed, and showed that most of these analyzed words overlap with expressions of emotions, actions, and bodily states. Our review shows that hedonics are typically investigated as processes that accompany other functions, but the mechanisms of hedonics (as core processes)have not been fully elucidated.
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