As humans, we perceive feelings from our bodies that relate our state of well-being, our
energy and stress levels, our mood and disposition. How do we have these feelings? What …

Neuroimagingstudies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) have begun to describe the functional neuroanatomy of emotion …

What neural mechanism underlies the capacity to understand the emotions of others? Does
this mechanism involve brain areas normally involved in experiencing the same emotion …

In this article we provide a unifying neural hypothesis on how individuals understand the
actions and emotions of others. Our main claim is that the fundamental mechanism at the …

Recognition of emotion draws on a distributed set of structures that include the
occipitotemporal neocortex, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex and right frontoparietal cortices …

We are an intensely social species—it has been argued that our social nature defines what
makes us human, what makes us conscious or what gave us our large brains. As a new …

The human orbitofrontal cortex is an important brain region for the processing of rewards
and punishments, which is a prerequisite for the complex and flexible emotional and social …

For decades, scientists who heard about synesthesia hearing colors, tasting words, seeing
colored pain just shrugged their shoulders or rolled their eyes. Now, as irrefutable evidence …

The function of the anterior-most portion of the temporal lobes, the temporal pole, is not well
understood. Anatomists have long considered it part of an extended limbic system based on …

The application of functional neuroimaging to the study of human emotion has yielded
valuable data; however, the conclusions that may be drawn from any one study are limited …