Much emotion research has focused on the end result of the emotion process, categorical
emotions, as reported by the protagonist or diagnosed by the researcher, with the aim of …

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 …

It is widely thought that phasic and sustained responses to threat reflect dissociable circuits
centered on the central nucleus of the amygdala (Ce) and the bed nucleus of the stria …

How we process ongoing experiences is shaped by our personal history, current needs, and
future goals. Consequently, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) activity involved in …

The dynamic adaptation of cognitive control in the face of competition from conflicting
response tendencies is one of the hallmarks of flexible human action control. Here, we …

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

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by difficulties in recognizing and verbalizing
emotions and the utilization of a cognitive style that is oriented toward external events, rather …

Understanding how and why affective responses change with age is central to
characterizing typical and atypical emotional development. Prior work has emphasized the …

We develop the concept of emotional proprioception, whereby the muscles of facial
expression play a central role in encoding and transmitting information to the brain's …

Background The startle eye-blink is the cross-species translational tool to study defensive
behavior in affective neuroscience with relevance to a broad range of neuropsychiatric …