Pleasure is mediated by well-developed mesocorticolimbic circuitry and serves adaptive
functions. In affective disorders, anhedonia (lack of pleasure) or dysphoria (negative affect) …

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in the generation and regulation of emotion.
However, we lack an integrative framework for understanding how different emotion-related …

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the
world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corporations have a'chief …

The ability to experience pleasant or unpleasant feelings or to represent objects as “positive”
or “negative” is known as representing hedonic “valence.” Although scientists …

Understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of emotion relies on objective readouts of
the emotional state of an individual, which remains a major challenge especially in animal …

The brain contains both generalized and stimulus-type-specific representations of aversive
events, but models of how these are integrated and related to subjective experience are …

Categorical models of emotions posit neurally and physiologically distinct human basic
emotions. We tested this assumption by using multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) to …

A central, unresolved problem in affective neuroscience is understanding how emotions are
represented in nervous system activity. After prior localization approaches largely failed …

Human neuroimaging research has transitioned from map** local effects to develo**
predictive models of mental events that integrate information distributed across multiple …

In this debate with Lisa Feldman Barrett, I defend a view of emotions as biological functional
states. Affective neuroscience studies emotions in this sense, but it also studies the …