It is commonly assumed that a person's emotional state can be readily inferred from his or
her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This …

Tremendous progress has been made in basic neuroscience in recent decades. One area
that has been especially successful is research on how the brain detects and responds to …

The specific neural systems underlying the subjective feeling of fear are debated in affective
neuroscience. Here, we combine functional MRI with machine learning to identify and …

The science of emotion has been using folk psychology categories derived from philosophy
to search for the brain basis of emotion. The last two decades of neuroscience research …

" When you feel anxious, angry, happy, or surprised, what's really going on inside you? Most
scientists would agree that emotions come from specific parts of the brain, and that we feel …

We present a novel large-scale dataset and accompanying machine learning models aimed
at providing a detailed understanding of the interplay between visual content, its emotional …

Uncertainty and affect are fundamental and interrelated aspects of the human condition.
Uncertainty is often associated with negative affect, but in some circumstances, it is …

I propose a reconceptualization of key phenomena important in the study of emotion—those
phenomena that reflect functions and circuits related to survival, and that are shared by …

As a highly social species, humans frequently exchange social information to support almost
all facets of life. One of the richest and most powerful tools in social communication is the …

Researchers have wondered how the brain creates emotions since the early days of
psychological science. With a surge of studies in affective neuroscience in recent decades …