Brain uses same signal to store what we feel whether we smell, taste or touch

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Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code, researchers have discovered.

They say the code represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people.

The say the code is like an 'emotionometer', and can deal with positive and negative feelings

We discovered that fine-grained patterns of neural activity within the orbitofrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with emotional processing, act as a neural code which captures an individual’s subjective feeling,' said Cornell University neuroscientist Adam Anderson.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2686848/Scientists-crack-emotional-code-Discovery-finds-brain-stores-feelings.html#ixzz373SKAUfs

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