The Brain Basis of Positive and Negative Affect: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis of the Human Neuroimaging Literature.

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  2016

• Venue

  Cerebral Cortex

• Publication date

  2016-05-01

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1093/cercor/bhv001PMID 25631056PMCID PMC4830281
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