The motivation to avoid pain and injury is a fundamental instinct, crucial to the survival of
individuals and species. Yet, each year, millions of people purposefully and directly injure …

Progress in the study of emotion and emotion regulation has increasingly been informed by
neuroscientific methods. This article focuses on two components of the event-related …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Psychophysiological and neuroscience studies of emotional processing undertaken by
investigators at the University of Florida Laboratory of the Center for the Study of Emotion …

The review summarizes and integrates findings from 40 years of event-related potential
(ERP) studies using pictures that differ in valence (unpleasant-to-pleasant) and arousal (low …

In this chapter, we discuss the development and use of picture stimuli incorporated in the
International Affective Picture System (IAPS, pronounced “eye-aps”; Lang, Bradley, & …

The foundations of orienting and attention are hypothesized to stem from activation of
defensive and appetitive motivational systems that evolved to protect and sustain the life of …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

This chapter explores the psychophysiological study of emotion primarily from a biphasic
motivational view. This view posits that human emotions are organized by neural systems of …

Emotional pictures guide selective visual attention. A series of event-related brain potential
(ERP) studies is reviewed demonstrating the consistent and robust modulation of specific …