Levine, Seth M. and Wackerle, Anja (2020) Investigating Emotional Similarity: A Comment on Riberto, Pobric, and Talmi (2019). BRAIN TOPOGRAPHY, 33 (3). pp. 285-287. ISSN 0896-0267, 1573-6792
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A recent review of the neuroimaging literature on emotional similarity brought to light some of the drawbacks of the latest studies. The authors discussed important methodological considerations for future work in this field, which predominantly involved stimulus selection. In general, we feel that their suggestions are valuable, but we hold that, depending on the specific scientific question(s) under investigation (e.g., individual differences), some of the suggestions may not meaningfully contribute to the scope of the study and might even introduce artificial constraints that could reduce the researchers' ability to discover effects of interest. Here we indicate one way to potentially circumvent such stimulus-related issues in neuroimaging studies and furthermore present a few scenarios in which additional controlling of the stimulus set may not be necessary or possible when investigating individual differences. This commentary serves to supplement the important methodological points raised by the authors by providing a caveat in potentially applying such points to all future experiments investigating emotional similarity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Affective science; Emotions; fMRI; Individual differences; Representational similarity analysis |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2023 09:14 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2023 09:14 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/44766 |
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