Paying attention to faces is of special interest for humans as well as for scientific research.
The experimental manipulation of facial information offers an ecologically valid approach to …

Tremendous progress has been made in basic neuroscience in recent decades. One area
that has been especially successful is research on how the brain detects and responds to …

Emotional states of consciousness, or what are typically called emotional feelings, are
traditionally viewed as being innately programmed in subcortical areas of the brain, and are …

Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit impaired social cognition, which manifests as
difficulties in identifying emotions, feeing connected to others, inferring people's thoughts …

Historically, research on emotion perception has focused on facial expressions, and findings
from this modality have come to dominate our thinking about other modalities. Here we …

Research on avoidance conditioning began in the late 1930s as a way to use laboratory
experiments to better understand uncontrollable fear and anxiety. Avoidance was initially …

This paper reviews and synthesizes functional imaging research that over the past decade
has begun to offer new insights into the brain mechanisms underlying emotion regulation …

A fast, subcortical pathway to the amygdala is thought to have evolved to enable rapid
detection of threat. This pathway's existence is fundamental for understanding nonconscious …

Background: Psilocybin has shown promise as a treatment for depression but its therapeutic
mechanisms are not properly understood. In contrast to the presumed actions of …

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 …