Cover Picture: The picture demonstrates the finding that the amygdala preferentially responds to emotional music when it is associated with realistic scenes. Using fMRI, we showed that combining music (rich in emotion but poor in information about the concrete world) with neutral films (poor in emotionality but rich in real-world details) yields increased activity in emotion-related brain regions. This supports a fundamental role for concrete real-world content in processing emotion in the human brain. See Eldar et al. 2007. Feeling the real world: limbic response to music depends on related content. Cereb Cortex 17(12): 2828–2840.
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