Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Investigation of the hippocampus has historically focused on computations within the
trisynaptic circuit. However, discovery of important anatomical and functional variability …

Emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are viewed as important cognitive
processes underlying symptoms of depression. To date, there is a limited understanding of …

Philosophies of aesthetics have posited that experience of the sublime—commonly but not
exclusively derived from scenes of natural grandeur—is distinct from that of beauty and is a …

Prompt responses to emotional, potentially threatening, stimuli are supported by neural
mechanisms that allow for privileged access of emotional information to processing …

The effects of emotion on memory are wide-ranging and powerful, but they are not uniform.
Although there is agreement that emotion enhances memory for individual items, how it …

The involvement of the human amygdala in emotion-related processing has been studied
using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for many years. However, despite the …

A fundamental question in the emotional memory literature is why emotion enhances
memory in some conditions but disrupts memory in other conditions. For example, separate …

Emotions can have both enhancing and impairing effects on various cognitive processes,
from lower (eg, perceptual) to higher level (eg, mnemonic and executive) processes. The …

The primary motor cortex (M1) is traditionally implicated in voluntary movement control. In
order to test the hypothesis that there is a functional topography of M1 activation in studies …