The Focus on Neuroscience box "Emotions and the Brain" describes a PET scan study investigating brain activation when participants recalled different kinds of emotional memories. What were the results of this study?
A) No matter what emotion was experienced, a single brain area was activated, indicating that there is a single emotion center in the brain.
B) Memories involving positive emotions activated the hypothalamus, and memories involving negative emotions activated the amygdala.
C) Each of the emotions produced a different pattern of brain activation, indicating that each emotion involved distinct neural circuits in the brain.
D) Memories involving positive emotions activated the amygdala, and memories involving negative emotions activated the hypthalamus.

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The study found that each of the emotions produced a different pattern of brain activation, indicating that each emotion involved distinct neural circuits in the brain. This suggests that there is no single emotion center in the brain and that emotional processing is more complex and distributed throughout different brain regions.

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