Each of us has felt afraid, and we can all recognize fear in many animal species. Yet there is
no consensus in the scientific study of fear. Some argue that 'fear'is a psychological …

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 …

Книга нейрофизиолога Джакомо Риццолатти, написанная им в соавторстве с
философом Коррадо Синигальей, посвящена проблеме, в изучении которой …

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 …

This article discusses the special features of odor-evoked memory and the current state-of-
the-art in odor-evoked memory research to show how these unique experiences may be …