Here we provide a review of the animal and human literature concerning the role of the
amygdala in fear conditioning, considering its potential influence over autonomic and …

Recent application of theories of embodied or grounded cognition to the recognition and
interpretation of facial expression of emotion has led to an explosion of research in …

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our
emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic …

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 …

Recognizing emotion from facial expressions draws on diverse psychological processes
implemented in a large array of neural structures. Studies using evoked potentials, lesions …

THE amygdala is thought to play a crucial role in emotional and social behaviour1. Animal
studies implicate the amygdala in both fear conditioning2 and face perception3. In humans …

El cerebro humano contiene cerca de diez mil millones de neuronas que están conectadas
entre sí de formas muy complejas. Aunque las chispas eléctricas y los cambios químicos …

Quantitative and qualitative reviews of the literature on sex differences in facial expression
processing (FEP) have yielded conflicting findings regarding children. This study was …

We measured amygdala activity in human volunteers during rapid visual presentations of
fearful, happy, and neutral faces using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The …

Facial emotions represent an important part of non-verbal communication used in everyday
life. Recent studies on emotional processing have implicated differing brain regions for …