Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion

This book draws its inspiration from the belief that the role of cognition in emotion is an important yet relatively neglected aspect of cognitive neuroscience. The argument is that emotion can be studied without compromise within the field of cognitive neuroscience.

This is the paperback edition of a title that has sold 1481 copies in hardback since 2000. This unique book draws its a inspiration from the belief that the role of cognition in emotion is an important yet relatively neglected aspect of cognitive neuroscience. By carefully examining underlying assumptions and the nature of the phenomena under same time investigation, editors and contributors reach the surprising conclusion that emotion - in all of its mystery andabout ineffability - can be studied without compromise within the field of cognitive neuroscience.Its superb selection of contributors identify what is currently known and the ways future research can extend knowledge of emotion and the brain. In doing so, they skillfully illuminate four major areas of research: the process of emotion generation, the functions of the amygdala, the conscious experience of emotion and emotion regulation and dysregulation. This book also reviews the latest findings from neuroanatomical studies in rats and non-human primates; neuropsychological, neurological and psychiatric investigations; studies in psychopathology and experimental psychology; and functional brain imaging research.

This book, a member of the Series in Affective Science, is a unique interdisciplinary sequence of articles on the cognitive neuroscience of emotion by some of the most well-known researchers in the area. It explores what is known about cognitive processes in emotion at the same time it reviews the processes and anatomical structures involved in emotion, determining whether there is something about emotion and its neural substrates that requires they be studied as a separate domain. Divided into four major focal points and presenting research that has been performed in the last decade, this book covers the process of emotion generation, the functions of amygdala, the conscious experience of emotion, and emotion regulation and dysregulation. Collectively, the chapters constitute a broad but selective survey of current knowledge about emotion and the brain, and they all address the close association between cognitive and emotional processes. By bringing together diverse strands of investigation with the aim of documenting current understanding of how emotion is instantiated in the brain, this book will be of use to scientists, researchers, and advanced students of psychology and neuroscience.