Emotions are valenced mental responses and associated physiological reactions that occur
spontaneously and automatically in response to internal or external stimuli, and can …

Interest in sex-related differences in psychological functioning has again come to the
foreground with new findings about their possible functional basis in the brain. Sex …

Classic cognitive theory conceptualizes executive functions as involving multiple specific
domains, including initiation, inhibition, working memory, flexibility, planning, and vigilance …

In this review of 100 fMRI studies of speech comprehension and production, published in
2009, activation is reported for: prelexical speech perception in bilateral superior temporal …

Functional imaging studies of emotional processing typically contain neutral control
conditions that serve to remove simple effects of visual perception, thus revealing the …

Models advanced to explain hemispheric asymmetries in representation of emotions will be
discussed following their historical progression. First, the clinical observations that have …

Alexithymia is characterized by difficulties in identifying, differentiating and describing
feelings. A high prevalence of alexithymia has often been observed in clinical disorders …

The self has been the topic of philosophical inquiry for centuries. Neuropsychological data
suggest that the declarative self can be fractionated into three functionally independent …

Hemispheric asymmetries in affective and cognitive functions have been extensively
studied. While both cerebral hemispheres contribute to most affective and cognitive …

Social skills probably emerge from the interaction between different neural processing
levels. However, social neuroscience is fragmented into highly specialized, rarely cross …