Emotions are often assumed to manifest in subcortical limbic and brainstem structures.
While these areas are clearly important for representing affect (eg, valence and arousal), we …

A longstanding controversy in the field of emotion research has concerned whether
emotions are better conceptualized in terms of discrete categories, such as fear and anger …

The existence of so-called 'basic emotions' and their defining attributes represents a long
lasting and yet unsettled issue in psychology. Recently, neuroimaging evidence, especially …

We tested two competing models for the brain basis of emotion, the basic emotion theory
and the conceptual act theory of emotion, using resting-state functional connectivity …

This article suggests that methodological and conceptual advancements in affective
sciences militate in favor of adopting an appraisal-driven componential approach to further …

Neurophysiological and psychological models posit that emotions depend on connections
across wide-spread corticolimbic circuits. While previous studies using pattern recognition …

The functional organization of human emotion systems as well as their neuroanatomical
basis and segregation in the brain remains unresolved. Here, we used pattern classification …

Determining and decoding emotional brain processes under ecologically valid conditions
remains a key challenge in affective neuroscience. The current functional Magnetic …

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 …

A central, unresolved problem in affective neuroscience is understanding how emotions are
represented in nervous system activity. After prior localization approaches largely failed …