Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The
neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within …

Adults' expertise in recognizing faces has been attributed to configural processing. We
distinguish three types of configural processing: detecting the first-order relations that define …

The late positive potential (LPP) is a reliable electrophysiological index of emotional
perception in humans. Despite years of research, the brain structures that contribute to 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 …

People's faces show fear in many different circumstances. However, when people are
terrified, as well as showing emotion, they run for cover. When we see a bodily expression of …

In the last ten years extraordinarily rapid improvements in imaging technology and
associated methodology have had an enormous impact on the way we assess human brain …

Among frequently used motivation theories some are built on the premise of work happening
in the 60s and 70s. Since work life has changed dramatically the question arises whether …

A common theme in theories of subjective awareness poses a self-related" observer"
function, or a homunculus, as a critical element without which awareness can not emerge …

Affect and cognition have long been treated as independent entities, but in the current
review we suggest that affect and cognition are in fact highly interdependent. We open the …

Functional neuroimaging studies of emotion processing consistently report amygdala
activation. Most of these studies observed lateralized amygdala activity, indicative of a clear …