Data for: Do anger perception and the experience of anger share common neural mechanisms? Coordinate-based meta-analytic evidence of similar and different mechanisms from functional neuroimaging studies

The neural bases of anger are still a matter of debate. In particular we do not know whether anger perception and anger experience rely on similar or different neural mechanisms. To study this topic, we performed activation-likelihood-estimation meta-analyses of human neuroimaging studies on 62 previous studies on anger perception and experience. Anger perception analysis resulted in significant activation in the amygdala, the superior temporal gyrus and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, thus revealing the role of perceptual areas such as the superior temporal gyrus and the amygdala for perceiving angry stimuli. Anger experience analysis resulted in the bilateral activation of the insula and the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, thus revealing the role of the insula in the experience of anger. Conjunction analyses revealed a common area localized in the right inferior frontal gyrus, probably involved in the appraisal and labelling of anger for both perception and experience.
Altogether these results provide new insights on the functional architecture underlying the neural processing of anger that involves separate and joint mechanisms, where the superior temporal gyrus and the amygdala are key regions for the perception of this emotion displayed by others, and the insula is a key region for the experience of anger.

These data show the GingerALE output of the meta-analyses on:
- Anger Perception
- Anger Experience
- The conjunction analysis between anger perception and anger experience