The capacity to control emotion is important for human adaptation. Questions about the
neural bases of emotion regulation have recently taken on new importance, as functional …

Emotional processes not only serve to record the value of sensory events, but also to elicit
adaptive responses and modify perception. Recent research using functional brain imaging …

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 …

Functional neuroimaging studies examining the neural bases of the cognitive control of
emotion have found increased prefrontal and decreased amygdala activation for the …

Research on the neural systems underlying emotion in animal models over the past two
decades has implicated the amygdala in fear and other emotional processes. This work …

Traditional approaches to the study of cognition emphasize an information-processing view
that has generally excluded emotion. In contrast, the recent emergence of cognitive …

The amygdala and hippocampal complex, two medial temporal lobe structures, are linked to
two independent memory systems, each with unique characteristic functions. In emotional …

New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris's first book, The End of Faith, ignited a
worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most …

We discuss four ways in which emotion may relate to cognitive load during learning. One
perspective describes emotions as extraneous cognitive load, competing for the limited …

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