Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …

This paper reviews the foundation for a role of the human anterior insular cortex (AIC) in
emotional awareness, defined as the conscious experience of emotions. We first introduce …

Importance Racial discrimination has a clear impact on health-related outcomes, but little is
known about how discriminatory experiences are associated with neural response patterns …

Emotion regulation is hypothesized to be a multifaceted process by which individuals
willfully modulate the intensity and direction of emotional response via prefrontally mediated …

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) lies in a unique position in the brain, with connections to
both the “emotional” limbic system and the “cognitive” prefrontal cortex. Thus, the ACC likely …

The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there is a considerable
degree of functional specialization and that many regions can be conceptualized as …

Emotion and motivation have crucial roles in determining human behavior. Yet, how they
interact with cognitive control functions is less understood. Here, the basic elements of a …

Mindfulness meditation is a set of attention-based, regulatory, and self-inquiry training
regimes. Although the impact of mindfulness training (MT) on self-regulation is well …

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

The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …