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 …

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 …

Functional significance of delta oscillations is not fully understood. One way to approach this
question would be from an evolutionary perspective. Delta oscillations dominate the EEG of …