Recent years have witnessed the emergence of powerful new tools for assaying the brain
and a remarkable acceleration of research focused on the interplay of emotion and …

Understanding the mechanisms of unconscious processing is one of the most substantial
endeavors of cognitive science. While there are many different empirical ways to address …

Recent behavioral and neuroimaging studies demonstrate that labeling one's emotional
experiences and perceptions alters those states. Here, we used a comprehensive meta …

Individual variation in physiological responsiveness to stress mediates risk for mental illness
and is influenced by both experiential and genetic factors. Common polymorphisms in the …

Rapid detection of a threat or its symbol (eg, fearful face), whether visible or invisible, is
critical for human survival. This function is suggested to be enabled by a subcortical pathway …

Given capacity limits, only a subset of stimuli give rise to a conscious percept.
Neurocognitive models suggest that humans have evolved mechanisms that operate without …

The interplay between the neural mechanisms of visual awareness and those involved in
emotion processing and the map** of related somatic changes remains unclear. To …

Data from both rodents and humans show that testosterone reduces fear. This effect is
hypothesized to result from testosterone's down regulating effects on the amygdala, a key …

Amygdala structural and functional abnormalities have been associated to reactive
aggression in previous studies. However, the possible linkage of these two types of …

Voxel-wise meta-analyses of task-evoked regional activity were conducted for healthy
individuals during the unconscious processing of emotional and neutral faces with an aim to …