Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is viewed as a major component of the emotion
response in many recent theories of emotion. Positions on the degree of specificity of ANS …

Functional imaging studies of emotional processing typically contain neutral control
conditions that serve to remove simple effects of visual perception, thus revealing the …

The present volume on concepts, cognition, emotion, and behavior, is the first in this new
Handbook series. The purpose of this first chapter is to provide an outline of stress, stress …

What is the basic structure of emotional experience and how is it represented in the human
brain? One highly influential theory, discrete basic emotions, proposes a limited set of basic …

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 …

Modern medicine has generally viewed the concept of “psychosomatic” disease with
suspicion. This view arose partly because no neural networks were known for the mind …

Real‐time functional magnetic resonance imaging (rtfMRI) is a novel technique that has
allowed subjects to achieve self‐regulation of circumscribed brain regions. Despite its …

Anxiety disorders have traditionally been conceptualized as reflecting the emotions of fear
and anxiety. A developing program of research demonstrates a relation between disgust …

In social contexts, facial expressions are dynamic in nature and vary rapidly in relation to
situational requirements. However, there are very few fMRI studies using dynamic emotional …

Disgust, an emotion related to avoiding harmful substances, has been linked to moral
judgments in many behavioral studies. However, the fact that participants report feelings of …