Emotions seem to arise ultimately from hard-wired neural circuits in the visceral-limbic brain
that facilitate diverse and adaptive behavioral and physiological responses to major classes …

Emotions seem to arise ultimately from hard-wired neural circuits in the visceral-limbic brain
that facilitate diverse and adaptive behavioral and physiological responses to major classes …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …

Conclusion This brief essay has argued, not just for the importance, but actually for the
necessity of including a serious account of emotion in any systematic analysis of cognition …

There are many advantages to defining emotions as states elicited by reinforcers, with the
states having a set of different functions. This approach leads towards an understanding of …

In The Cognitive-Emotional Brain (Pessoa 2013), I describe the many ways that emotion and
cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The book summarizes five areas of …

Abstract Ortony and Turner (1990) asked “What's Basic About Basic Emotions,” and they
concluded “very little.” They proceeded to advocate a “componential” or “mosaic” view of …

The neural organization of human emotion spans multiple levels of the brain, from the
elementary adaptive reflexes of the lower brainstem, to the complex visceral and somatic …

Abstract The “affective” and “cognitive” neuroscience approaches to understanding emotion
(AN and CN, respectively) represent potentially synergistic, but as yet unreconciled …

This review will focus on a motivational circuit in the brain, centered on the amygdala, that
underlies human emotion. This neural circuitry of appetitive/approach and …