Salience provides the impulse, analogous to “flight/fight/freeze”. Valence tuning provides the behavior, “Run there”, “Yell”, “Play Dead”.
Valence can modify the salience pulse, e.g. “freeze” can be modified to “fight” with high enough metabolic output through “positive” valence channels.
Valence and salience combinations can produce unstable/highly error prone combinations which are “felt”, e.g. anxiety.
For most people, established metabolic pathways get greater weight in the behavioral down select process.
We can decode behavior (and underlying impulses) by detecting changes across the valence centers.
Behavior is a series of either binary or ternary metabolically guided path selections, which are integrated downstream into maps.
Philosophically, once we have the ability to modify our behavior on a decision by decision level, are we in control at all or just congruous social blob of behavior?
Relationship between nuclei-specific amygdala connectivity and mental health dimensions in humans
Edit: Tree walk on the article –
<- Comprehensive cellular-resolution atlas of the adult human brain
<- Stratification of MDD and GAD patients by resting state brain connectivity predicts cognitive bias