Emotions arise from activations of specialized neuronal populations in several parts of the
cerebral cortex, notably the anterior cingulate, insula, ventromedial prefrontal, and …

This past year has seen significant advances in our understanding of the physiology of
emotion. Attention continues to focus on the amygdala and its interconnections with …

This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary
sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion by some of the most well …

The amygdala complex has long been known as part of the neural circuitry critical for
emotion. Beyond its role in emotional reactivity, studies of animal models and patients with …

Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work …

Traditional approaches to the study of cognition emphasize an information-processing view
that has generally excluded emotion. In contrast, the recent emergence of cognitive …

The Handbook of Affective Sciences is a comprehensive road map to the burgeoning area of
affective sciences, which now spans several disciplines. Helping to delineate this emerging …

The amygdala appears to play an essential role in many aspects of emotional information
processing and behavior. Studies over the past year have begun to clarify the anatomical …

Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the
occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices …

Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The
neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within …