Emotions are one of the most apparent and important aspects of our lives, yet have
remained one of the most enigmatic to explain scienti cally. On the one hand, nothing seems …

In this article, we offer a brief history summarizing the last century of neuroscientific study of
emotion, highlighting dominant themes that run through various schools of thought. We then …

By the end of the 19th century, Charles Darwin had made incisive observations on the
expression of emotions in animals and humans and had placed emotion in the perspective …

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 …

A reader-friendly exploration of the science of emotion. After years of neglect by both
mainstream biology and psychology, the study of emotions has emerged as a central topic of …

Emotions are at the heart of how we understand the human mind and of our relationships
within the social world. Yet, there is still no scientific consensus on the fundamental nature of …

Both neuroscience and cognitive science have neglected emotion until recently. By the last
quarter of the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin, William James, and Sigmund Freud had …

Building on the legacy of the groundbreaking first edition, the Editors of this unique volume
have selected more than 100 leading emotion researchers from around the world and asked …

Since its emergence in the 1990s (eg, Davidson 81 Sutton, 1995; Panksepp, 1991), affective
neuroscience has considerably extended our knowledge ofthe emotional brain. However …

Regardless of culture, most adult humans report experiencing similar feelings such as
anger, fear, humor, and joy. Such subjective emotional states, however, are not universal …