The field of neuroscience has, after a long period of looking the other way, again embraced
emotion as an important research area. Much of the progress has come from studies of fear …

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 …

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 …

This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our
knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott …

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the neural basis of emotion. Much
of this enthusiasm has been triggered by studies of the amygdala and its contribution to fear …

Recent data have demonstrated a biochemical sequence of events in the rat hippocampus
that is necessary for memory formation of inhibitory avoidance behavior. The sequence …

Contemporary neuroscientists have available a vast arsenal of tools for understanding brain
functions, from the level of anatomical systems to the level of molecules. Localization of …

Da William James a Damasio, LeDoux ripropone la storia di uno dei percorsi più importanti
delle neuroscienze. Attraverso l'analisi di oltre cento anni di studi sulle emozioni, in questo …

There is a strong consensus that the amygdala is involved in mediating influences of
emotional arousal and stress on learning and memory. There is extensive evidence that the …

Through the ages, cognition and emotion have been viewed as separate but equal aspects
of the mind. The goal of a theory of mind was traditionally to understand how cognition …