Pathological neuronal firing was demonstrated 50 years ago as the hallmark of epileptically
transformed cortex with the use of implanted microelectrodes. Since then, microelectrodes …

The pursuit of happiness has been an important component of philosophical thought for a
long time. Traditionally, happiness could be viewed as the result of rational thinking and …

Although it is clear that emotional and motivational manipulations yield a strong influence on
cognition and behaviour, these domains have mostly been investigated in independent …

Accurate localization of complex human experiences such as emotions, dreaming, creativity,
and consciousness to specific cerebral structures or neural networks has remained elusive …

The field of cognitive development was pioneered and largely developed by Jean Piaget in
the early to mid 1900's. His approach to genetic epistemology, or study of the origins of …

Cognitive tasks are commonly used to identify brain networks involved in the underlying
cognitive process. However, inferring the brain networks from intracranial EEG data presents …

How emotions unfold through time in the brain, and how fast they can be regulated by
voluntary control, remain unresolved. Psychological accounts of emotion regulation posit …

Affective neuroscience, the study of neural mechanisms that give rise to emotional
experiences in humans and animals, has a short but rich history. Almost three decades old …

Background Intracranial EEG data offer a unique spatio-temporal precision to investigate
human brain functions. Large datasets have become recently accessible thanks to new …

The project of justifying all the limits and failings of human cognition as inevitable
consequences of strategies that are actually" optimal" relative to the limits on computational …