Efforts to bridge emotion theory with neurobiology can be facilitated by dynamic systems
(DS) modeling. DS principles stipulate higher-order wholes emerging from lower-order …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

In The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (Pessoa 2013), I describe the many ways that emotion and
cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The book summarizes five areas of …

Lindquist et al. provide a convincing case against what they call the locationist account of
emotion. Their quantitative approach elegantly illustrates the shortcomings of this still …

Emotions seem to arise ultimately from hard-wired neural circuits in the visceral-limbic brain
that facilitate diverse and adaptive behavioral and physiological responses to major classes …

Despite a staggering body of research demonstrating sex differences in expressed emotion,
very few theoretical models (evolutionary or non-evolutionary) offer a critical examination of …

Emotion is often understood in terms of a circumscribed set of cortical and subcortical brain
regions. I propose, instead, that emotion should be understood in terms of large-scale …

Contempt is typically studied as a uniquely human moral emotion. However, this approach
has yielded inconclusive results. We argue this is because the folk affect concept “contempt” …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

Recent models suggest emotion generation, perception, and regulation rely on multiple,
interacting large-scale brain networks. Despite the wealth of research in this field, the exact …