Overall, we found little evidence that discrete emotion categories can be consistently and specifically localized to distinct brain regions. We review both locationist and psychological constructionist hypotheses of brain–emotion correspondence and report meta-analytic findings bearing on these hypotheses. We compare the locationist approach (i.e., the hypothesis that discrete emotion categories consistently and specifically correspond to distinct brain regions) with the psychological constructionist approach (i.e., the hypothesis that discrete emotion categories are constructed of more general brain networks not specific to those categories) to better understand the brain basis of emotion. In this article, we present a meta-analytic summary of the human neuroimaging literature on emotion. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades, scientists are poised to answer this question. Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of psychological science.
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