Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressions

P Vuilleumier, JL Armony, J Driver, RJ Dolan - Nature neuroscience, 2003 - nature.com
High and low spatial frequency information in visual images is processed by distinct neural
channels. Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in humans, we …

The emotional brain

T Dalgleish - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2004 - nature.com
The discipline of affective neuroscience is concerned with the neural bases of emotion and
mood. The past 30 years have witnessed an explosion of research in affective neuroscience …

[HTML][HTML] Social cognition in humans

CD Frith, U Frith - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
We review a diversity of studies of human social interaction and highlight the importance of
social signals. We also discuss recent findings from social cognitive neuroscience that …

Role of facial expressions in social interactions

C Frith - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The expressions we see in the faces of others engage a number of different cognitive
processes. Emotional expressions elicit rapid responses, which often imitate the emotion in …

The facilitated processing of threatening faces: an ERP analysis.

HT Schupp, A Öhman, M Junghöfer, AI Weike… - Emotion, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org
Threatening, friendly, and neutral faces were presented to test the hypothesis of the
facilitated perceptual processing of threatening faces. Dense sensor event-related brain …

Neural correlates of emotion–cognition interactions: A review of evidence from brain imaging investigations

F Dolcos, AD Iordan, S Dolcos - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Complex dynamic behaviour involves reciprocal influences between emotion and cognition.
On the one hand, emotion is a “double-edged sword” that may affect various aspects of our …

Measuring emotional processes in animals: the utility of a cognitive approach

ES Paul, EJ Harding, M Mendl - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Contemporary researchers regard emotional states as multifaceted, comprising
physiological, behavioural, cognitive and subjective components. Subjective, conscious …

Towards the neurobiology of emotional body language

B De Gelder - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2006 - nature.com
People's faces show fear in many different circumstances. However, when people are
terrified, as well as showing emotion, they run for cover. When we see a bodily expression of …

A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion

D Sander, D Grandjean, KR Scherer - Neural networks, 2005 - Elsevier
While artificial neural networks are regularly employed in modeling the perception of facial
and vocal emotion expression as well as in automatic expression decoding by artificial …

Predictors of amygdala activation during the processing of emotional stimuli: a meta-analysis of 385 PET and fMRI studies

SG Costafreda, MJ Brammer, AS David, CHY Fu - Brain research reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Although amygdala activity has been purported to be modulated by affective and non-
affective factors, considerable controversy remains on its precise functional nature. We …