Understanding Emotions

✍ Scribed by S. Anders, G. Ende, M. Junghofer, J. Kissler and D. Wildgruber (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 485
• Series: Progress in Brain Research 156
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Emotions shape all aspects of our thinking and behavior, particularly when we communicate with others. How does our brain respond to emotions conveyed by picture media, human faces, voices, and written language? How do we integrate this information in social interaction? What goes wrong in the brains of people suffering from emotional disorders? This book reviews modern neuroscientific and psychological research providing answers to these questions. In this volume, leading researchers give comprehensive overviews of the current knowledge on different aspects of emotional perception and the underlying brain mechanisms and highlight outstanding research questions for the future. This book provides essential information for other researchers in the fields of affective and cognitive neuroscience as well as for advanced students.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
List of Contributors
Pages v-vii

Preface
Page ix

Emotion, motivation, and the brain: Reflex foundations in animal and human research Review Article
Pages 3-29
Peter J. Lang, Michael Davis

Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies Review Article
Pages 31-51
Harald T. Schupp, Tobias Flaisch, Jessica Stockburger, Markus Junghöfer

Implicit and explicit categorization of natural scenes Review Article
Pages 53-65
Maurizio Codispoti, Vera Ferrari, Andrea De Cesarei, Rossella Cardinale

Dynamics of emotional effects on spatial attention in the human visual cortex Review Article
Pages 67-91
Gilles Pourtois, Patrik Vuilleumier

The neural basis of narrative imagery: emotion and action Review Article
Pages 93-103
Dean Sabatinelli, Peter J. Lang, Margaret M. Bradley, Tobias Flaisch

Subliminal emotion perception in brain imaging: findings, issues, and recommendations Review Article
Pages 105-121
Stefan Wiens

Neuroimaging methods in affective neuroscience: Selected methodological issues Review Article
Pages 123-143
Markus Junghöfer, Peter Peyk, Tobias Flaisch, Harald T. Schupp

Emotional and semantic networks in visual word processing: insights from ERP studies Review Article
Pages 147-183
Johanna Kissler, Ramin Assadollahi, Cornelia Herbert

Event-related potential studies of language and emotion: words, phrases, and task effects Review Article
Pages 185-203
Ira Fischler, Margaret Bradley

Emotional connotation of words: role of emotion in distributed semantic systems Review Article
Pages 205-216
M. Allison Cato Jackson, Bruce Crosson

Macroscopic brain dynamics during verbal and pictorial processing of affective stimuli Review Article
Pages 217-232
Andreas Keil

Intonation as an interface between language and affect Review Article
Pages 235-247
Didier Grandjean, Tanja Bänziger, Klaus R. Scherer

Cerebral processing of linguistic and emotional prosody: fMRI studies Review Article
Pages 249-268
D. Wildgruber, H. Ackermann, B. Kreifelts, T. Ethofer

Affective and linguistic processing of speech prosody: DC potential studies Review Article
Pages 269-284
Hans Pihan

Lateralization of emotional prosody in the brain: an overview and synopsis on the impact of study design Review Article
Pages 285-294
Sonja A. Kotz, Martin Meyer, Silke Paulmann

Psychoacoustic studies on the processing of vocal interjections: how to disentangle lexical and prosodic information? Review Article
Pages 295-302
Susanne Dietrich, Hermann Ackermann, Diana P. Szameitat, Kai Alter

Judging emotion and attitudes from prosody following brain damage Review Article
Pages 303-317
Marc D. Pell

Processing of facial identity and expression: a psychophysical, physiological, and computational perspective Review Article
Pages 321-343
Adrian Schwaninger, Christian Wallraven, Douglas W. Cunningham, Sarah D. Chiller-Glaus

Investigating audiovisual integration of emotional signals in the human brain Review Article
Pages 345-361
Thomas Ethofer, Gilles Pourtois, Dirk Wildgruber

Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuli Review Article
Pages 363-378
Ralph Adolphs, Michael Spezio

Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition Review Article
Pages 379-401
Christian Keysers, Valeria Gazzola

Empathizing: neurocognitive developmental mechanisms and individual differences Review Article
Pages 403-417
Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Simon Baron-Cohen

The multiple facets of empathy: a survey of theory and evidence Review Article
Pages 419-440
Susanne Leiberg, Silke Anders

Partly dissociable neural substrates for recognizing basic emotions: a critical review Review Article
Pages 443-456
Andreas Hennenlotter, Ulrike Schroeder

Integration of emotion and cognition in patients with psychopathy Review Article
Pages 457-466
Monika Sommer, Göran Hajak, Katrin Döhnel, Johannes Schwerdtner, Jörg Meinhardt, Jürgen L. Müller

Disordered emotional processing in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage Review Article
Pages 467-479
Katarzyna Kucharska-Pietura

The biochemistry of dysfunctional emotions: proton MR spectroscopic findings in major depressive disorder Review Article
Pages 481-501
Gabriele Ende, Traute Demirakca, Heike Tost

Subject Index
Pages 503-508