Neuroelectric and imaging studies of meditation are reviewed. Electroencephalographic
measures indicate an overall slowing subsequent to meditation, with theta and alpha …

Cognitive neuroscience is making rapid strides in areas highly relevant to education.
However, there is a gulf between current science and direct classroom applications. Most …

The present study used pleasant and unpleasant music to evoke emotion and functional
magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine neural correlates of emotion processing …

Communication is essential to members of a society not only for the expression of personal
information, but also for the protection from environmental threats. Highly social mammals …

Pavlovian or classical fear conditioning is recognized as a model system to investigate the
neurobiological mechanisms of learning and memory in the mammalian brain and to …

Fear extinction is the decrease in conditioned fear responses that normally occurs when a
conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly presented in the absence of the aversive …

The current review focuses on the construct of psychopathy, conceptualized as a clinical
entity that is fundamentally distinct from a heterogeneous collection of syndromes …

There is considerable debate regarding the extent to which limbic regions respond
differentially to items with different valences (positive or negative) or to different stimulus …

Context Magnetic resonance imaging studies have identified hippocampal volume
reductions in schizophrenia and amygdala volume enlargements in bipolar disorder …

Music is an intriguing stimulus widely used in movies to increase the emotional experience.
However, no brain imaging study has to date examined this enhancement effect using …