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 …

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 …

Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The
neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within …

How is emotion embodied in the brain? That is the question posed by affective neuroscience
(Cacioppo & Gardner, 1999; Davidson & Sutton, 1995; LeDoux, 1996; Panksepp, 1991 …

Emotions play a central role in human experience. Over time, methods for manipulating
emotion have become increasingly refined and techniques for making sense of the …

Our understanding of emotion has lagged behind our knowledge of most other domains of
cognition, both theoretically and empirically. In large part, this can be attributed to the fact …

Despite the obvious importance of emotion to human existence, scientists concerned with
human nature have not been able to reach a consensus about what emotion is and what …

Through the ages, cognition and emotion have been viewed as separate but equal aspects
of the mind. The goal of a theory of mind was traditionally to understand how cognition …

Tracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a
psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and culture owe less to our faculty for reason …

Although emotion and cognition have sometimes been viewed as two distinct components of
human psychology (Zajonc, 1980; Zajonc & KunstWilson, 1980), findings from animals and …