Evidence suggests that there are differences in the capacity for empathy between males and
females. However, how deep do these differences go? Stereotypically, females are …

We review the discovery, characterization, and evolving use of the N400, an event-related
brain potential response linked to meaning processing. We describe the elicitation of N400s …

In this article, we discuss the hypothesis that affect is a fundamental, psychologically
irreducible property of the human mind. We begin by presenting historical perspectives on …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

Vocal perception is particularly important for understanding a speaker's emotional state and
intentions because, unlike facial perception, it is relatively independent of speaker distance …

There is remarkable variety in emotional life. Not all mental states referred to by the same
word (eg,“fear”) look alike, feel alike, or have the same neurophysiological signature …

The paper presents the Affective Pertinentization Model (APER), a theory of the affect and its
role it plays in meaning-making. APER views the affect as the basic form of making sense of …

This study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to compare the time course of emotion
processing from non-linguistic vocalizations versus speech prosody, to test whether …

One of the main limitations of natural language‐based approaches to meaning is that they
do not incorporate multimodal representations the way humans do. In this study, we …