Carnelley and Rowe (2010) examined how individuals experience security priming and how its effects differ from those produced by other positive-affect-related or relationship-related primes. Specifically, they analyzed the written protocols produced by participants in different priming conditions and found that security primes, as compared to other positive primes, led to more thoughts related to felt security, positive care, a sense of merging with another, positive emotion, and communion. In a further examination of the effects of security priming, Canterberry and Gillath (2013) scanned the brains of participants during rapid exposures to security-related words. Compared to a neutral prime, security priming was associated with widespread activation in the medial frontal and prefrontal cortical areas, which are associated with cognitive control and self-regulation. Additionally, security priming was uniquely associated with activation in the striatum (e.g., the pufumen, globus pallidus, caudate), insula, and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)-areas associated with positive affect and approach motivation.