The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

Neuroimagingstudies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) have begun to describe the functional neuroanatomy of emotion …

Whether we feel sympathy for another, listen to our heartbeat, experience pain or negotiate,
the insular cortex is thought to integrate perceptions, emotions, thoughts, and plans into one …

The problem of consciousness continues to be a subject of great debate in cognitive
science. Synthesizing decades of research, The Conscious Brain advances a new theory of …

Epidemiological evidence supports a link between sleep loss and obesity. However, the
detrimental impact of sleep deprivation on central brain mechanisms governing appetitive …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …

Many researchers have claimed that the emotion of disgust functions to protect us from
disease. Although there have been several discussions of this hypothesis, none have yet …

Over the last ten years the basic knowledge of brain structure and function has vastly
expanded, and its incorporation into the developmental sciences is now allowing for more …

Despite much research on the function of the insular cortex, few studies have investigated
functional subdivisions of the insula in humans. The present study used resting-state …

This volume (one of two) is the first presentation of Schore's comprehensive theory in book
form, as it has developed since 1994. In 1994 Allan Schore published his groundbreaking …