The traditional view on the cerebellum is that it controls motor behavior. Although recent
work has revealed that the cerebellum supports also nonmotor functions such as cognition …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Many emotional stimuli are processed without being consciously perceived. Recent
evidence indicates that subcortical structures have a substantial role in this processing …

A subcortical pathway through the superior colliculus and pulvinar to the amygdala is
commonly assumed to mediate the non-conscious processing of affective visual stimuli. We …

Nonverbal behavior is a central factor influencing the therapeutic relationship. Despite broad
agreement on its importance, empirical studies assessing nonverbal behavior in counseling …

Why bodies? It is rather puzzling that given the massive interest in affective neuroscience in
the last decade, it still seems to make sense to raise the question 'Why bodies' and to try to …

The existence of so-called 'basic emotions' and their defining attributes represents a long
lasting and yet unsettled issue in psychology. Recently, neuroimaging evidence, especially …

Body movements communicate affective expressions and, in recent years, computational
models have been developed to recognize affective expressions from body movements or to …

Children's ability to accurately recognize the external emotional signals produced by those
around them represents a milestone in their socioemotional development and is associated …

Given recent technological developments in robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality,
it is perhaps unsurprising that the arrival of emotionally expressive and reactive artificial …