Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain

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Chapter 15 - Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain

from Section III - Emotion Perception and Elicitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2025

Natalie G. Frye and

Kristen A. Lindquist

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Jorge Armony and

Patrik Vuilleumier

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Jorge Armony: Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Patrik Vuilleumier: Affiliation:
University of Geneva

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There is growing evidence that language plays an important role in emotion because it helps people acquire emotion concept knowledge. In this chapter, we argue that language plays a mechanistic role in emotion because emotion concept knowledge, once acquired, is used by the brain to predictively and adaptively regulate a person’s subjective emotional experiences and behaviors. Building on predictive processing models of brain function, we argue that the emotion concepts learned via language during early development “seed” the brain’s emotional predictions throughout the lifespan. We review constructionist theories of emotion and their support in behavioral, physiological, neuroimaging, and lesion data. We then situate these constructionist predictions within recent neuroscience research to speculate on the neural mechanisms by which emotion concepts “seed” emotional experiences.

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Emotion language concepts brain predictive processing

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Information: The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience , pp. 306 - 322

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