The orbitofrontal cortex represents the reward or affective value of primary reinforcers
including taste, touch, texture, and face expression. It learns to associate other stimuli with …

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 …

Tunteet kaiken ytimessä. Tunteet ovat kaiken inhimillisen toiminnan ytimessä. Erilaiset
sosiaaliset tilanteet ja tapahtumat saavat meissä aikaan reaktioita, joita kutsumme tunteiksi …

Covid-19 pandemics has fostered a pervasive use of facemasks all around the world. While
they help in preventing infection, there are concerns related to the possible impact of …

The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

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

In 1996 Joseph LeDoux's The Emotional Brain presented a revelatory examination of the
biological bases of our emotions and memories. Now, the world-renowned expert on the …

Neuroeconomics uses knowledge about brain mechanisms to inform economic analysis,
and roots economics in biology. It opens up the “black box” of the brain, much as …

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