Emotions arise from activations of specialized neuronal populations in several parts of the
cerebral cortex, notably the anterior cingulate, insula, ventromedial prefrontal, and …

During communication, we perceive and express emotional information through many
different channels, including facial expressions, prosody, body motion, and posture …

“A rigorous, in-depth guide to the history, philosophy, and scientific exploration of this
widespread emotional state...[LeDoux] offers a magisterial review of the role of mind and …

The ability of animals to respond to life-threatening stimuli is essential for survival. Although
vision provides one of the major sensory inputs for detecting threats across animal species …

The existence of so-called 'basic emotions' and their defining attributes represents a long
lasting and yet unsettled issue in psychology. Recently, neuroimaging evidence, especially …

Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seem to have difficulties looking
others in the eyes, but the substrate for this behavior is not well understood. The subcortical …

Summary Nonconscious [1–6], rapid [7, 8], or coarse [9] visual processing of emotional
stimuli induces functional activity in a subcortical pathway to the amygdala involving the …

Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts
some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence …

An important evolutionary function of emotions is to prime individuals for action. Although
functional neuroimaging has provided evidence for such a relationship, little is known about …

The quest to characterize the neural signature distinctive of different basic emotions has
recently come under renewed scrutiny. Here we investigated whether facial expressions of …