It is very likely that flat affect is a result of deficits in motor expression as opposed to emotional processing.

Her research, suggests that activity in brain regions associated with emotional processing undergo significant functional changes during adolescence.

Finally, some studies have examined emotional processing in the great apes.

In contrast, the amygdala, an area of the brain responsible for reward and emotional processing, develops during early adolescence.

Another proposed explanation is that it leads to more arousal and emotional processing.

This theory proposes that eye movement can be used to facilitate emotional processing of memories, changing the person's memory to attend to more adaptive information.

The amygdala is often associated with emotional processing, particularly for the emotion of fear, but is also important in memory.

Instead, they disturb the emotional processing of stimuli, which causes random and/or inappropriate responses.

Below are a few regions and structure involved in emotional processing that show functional lateralization.

Cognitive impairments have been found in executive control, information processing and emotional processing.