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 …

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 …

Affective neuroscience is the subdiscipline of the biobehavioral sciences that examines the
underlying neural bases of mood and emotion. The application of this body of theory and …

One common point of debate in the study of emotion is whether the basic, irreducible
elements of emotional life are discrete emotion categories, such as anger, fear, sadness …

What is the basic structure of emotional experience and how is it represented in the human
brain? One highly influential theory, discrete basic emotions, proposes a limited set of basic …

Questions about the nature of emotion have existed since psychology emerged as a
scientific discipline in the late 19th century (Darwin, 1872/1998; Dewey, 1895; Irons, 1897; …

This brief commentary highlights seven sins in the study of emotion that are explicitly treated
in contemporary affective neuroscience. These sins are (1) Affect and cognition are …

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 …

How emotions are represented in the nervous system is a crucial unsolved problem in the
affective neuroscience. Many studies are striving to find the localization of basic emotions in …

The different temporal dynamics of emotions are critical to understand their evolutionary role
in the regulation of interactions with the surrounding environment. Here, we investigated the …