The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and
significant writers about emotion and the brain. An exploration into the adaptive functions of …

For each of the 5 needs in Maslow's motivational hierarchy (physiological, safety-security,
belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization), operational definitions were developed from …

Cortical analysis related to visual object recognition is traditionally thought to propagate
serially along a bottom-up hierarchy of ventral areas. Recent proposals gradually promote …

How do people effectively regulate their emotional reactions? Why are some people better
at this than others? Most prior research has addressed these questions by focusing on …

In this contribution I expand my continuing work on the centrality of right brain structures and
unconscious processes from the neuropsychoanalytic perspective of regulation theory, an …

The human brain is not a passive organ simply waiting to be activated by external stimuli.
Instead, we propose that the brain continuously employs memory of past experiences to …

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience to better understand emotion. We are hardwired to
connect with one another, and we connect through our emotions. Our brains, bodies, and …

This article discusses how recent studies of the right brain, which is dominant for the implicit,
nonverbal, intuitive, holistic processing of emotional information and social interactions, can …