Fear and anxiety play a central role in mammalian life, and there is considerable interest in
clarifying their nature, identifying their biological underpinnings, and determining their …

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has
generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic …

The brain contains both generalized and stimulus-type-specific representations of aversive
events, but models of how these are integrated and related to subjective experience are …

Theorists have suggested that emotions are canonical responses to situations ancestrally
linked to survival. If so, then emotions may be afforded by features of the sensory …

Since the publication of the first neuroscience study investigating emotion with music about
two decades ago, the number of functional neuroimaging studies published on this topic has …

Music can induce strong subjective experience of emotions, but it is debated whether these
responses engage the same neural circuits as emotions elicited by biologically significant …

Pleasure is a fundamental driver of human behaviour, yet its neural basis remains largely
unknown. Rodent studies highlight opioidergic neural circuits connecting the nucleus …

The neural bases of affective experience remain elusive. Early neuroscience models of
affect searched for specific brain regions that uniquely carried out the computations that …

Neurobiological models of emotion focus traditionally on limbic/paralimbic regions as neural
substrates of emotion generation, and insular cortex (in conjunction with isocortical anterior …

Effective social functioning relies in part on the ability to identify emotions from auditory
stimuli and respond appropriately. Previous studies have uncovered brain regions engaged …