There is at present limited understanding of the neurobiological basis of the different
processes underlying emotion perception. We have aimed to identify potential neural …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

Facial emotions represent an important part of non-verbal communication used in everyday
life. Recent studies on emotional processing have implicated differing brain regions for …

Evidence from pioneering animal research has suggested that the amygdala is involved in
the processing of aversive stimuli, particularly fear-related information. Fear is central in the …

A wealth of animal data implicates the amygdala in aspects of emotional processing. In
recent years, functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have begun to refine …

The attractiveness of a face is a highly salient social signal, influencing mate choice and
other social judgements. In this study, we used event-related functional magnetic resonance …

Affective experience has been described in terms of two primary dimensions: intensity and
valence. In the human brain, it is intrinsically difficult to dissociate the neural coding of these …

Human emotional expressions serve a crucial communicatory role allowing the rapid
transmission of valence information from one individual to another. This paper will review …

BACKGROUND: Disturbed interpersonal relations and emotional dysregulation are
fundamental aspects of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The amygdala plays …

OBJECTIVE: The authors used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to define the
neural regions mediating self-referential processing of emotional stimuli and to explore how …