Erotic emotion

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Not exactly an interaction one expects to find in a neuroscience blog, is it? But, prudish social norms aside, sexuality is a very normal part of human life, with the same psychological, biological, and neurological pathways of explaining and exploring it. Despite what college culture would like you to believe, sex is a highly emotional subject and experience, in that it evokes and is influenced by emotional processes.

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It has long been posited that among emotional stimuli, only negative threatening information modulates early shifts of attention.

However, in the last few decades there has been an increase in research showing that attention is also erotic emotion oriented toward positive rewarding stimuli such as babies, food, and erotic information. Because reproduction-related stimuli have some of the largest effects among positive stimuli on emotional attention, the present work reviews recent literature and proposes that the cognitive and cerebral mechanisms underlying the involuntarily attentional orientation toward threat-related information are also sensitive to erotic information.

More specifically, the recent research suggests that both types of information involuntarily orient attention due to their concern relevance and that the amygdala plays an important role in detecting concern-relevant stimuli, thereby enhancing perceptual processing and influencing emotional attentional processes.

Keywords: amygdala; erotic information; motivational relevance; reward; selective attention. Abstract It has long been posited that among emotional stimuli, only negative threatening information modulates early shifts of attention.

Publication types Research Support, Non-U. Gov't Review.