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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This book proposes a theory of human cognitive evolution, drawing from paleontology,
linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, and especially neuropsychology. The properties …

Ethologists and comparative psychologists have found that the social behavior,
discrimination learning, and especially the communicative behavior of many animals are …

When cognitive neuropsychologists make inferences about the functional architecture of the
normal mind from selective cognitive impairments they generally assume that the effects of …

Abstracts Cognitive science typically postulates unconscious mental phenomena,
computational or otherwise, to explain cognitive capacities. The mental phenomena in …