The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low …

Although amygdala activity has been purported to be modulated by affective and non-
affective factors, considerable controversy remains on its precise functional nature. We …

Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental
states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self …

Abstract For North Americans, elicitors of disgust come from nine domains: food, body
products, animals, sexual behaviors, contact with death or corpses, violations of the exterior …

We performed an updated quantitative meta-analysis of 162 neuroimaging studies of
emotion using a novel multi-level kernel-based approach, focusing on locating brain regions …

Judgments of trustworthiness from faces determine basic approach/avoidance responses
and approximate the valence evaluation of faces that runs across multiple person …

Within the field of emotion, the study of facial expressions has been notable both for
empirical advances and for theoretical controversy. In this chapter, we draw upon an …

À l'évidence, faire quelque chose et imaginer le faire ne reviennent pas au même. Et
pourtant! Il se pourrait bien que, pour notre cerveau, la pensée et l'action soient une seule et …

Face perception elicits activation within a distributed cortical network in the human brain.
The network includes visual (“core”) regions, which process invariant facial features, as well …

Decision making in a social group has two distinguishing features. First, humans and other
animals routinely alter their behavior in response to changes in their physical and social …