Understanding emotions. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by S. Anders [and four others].
• Other Names: Anders, S
• Contents: Section I. Attention and Motivation in Emotional Decoding; Emotion, motivation and the brain: reflex foundations in animal and human research; Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies; Implicit and explicit categorization of natural scenes; Dynamics of emotional effects on spatial attention in the human visual cortex; Teh neural basis of narrative imagery: emotion and action; Subliminal emotion perception in brain imaging: findings, issues and recommendations; Neuroimaging methods in affective neuroscience: selected methodological issues; ; Section 2. Understanding Emotional Language Content; Emotional and sematinc networks in visual word processing - insights from ERP studies; Event-related potential studies of language and emotion: words, phrases and task effects; Emotional connotation of words: role of emotion in distributed semantic systems; Macroscopic brain dynamics during verbal and pictorial processing of affective stimuli; ; Section 3. Understanding Emotional Intonation; Intonation as an interface between language and affect; Cerebral processing of linguistic and emotional prosody: fMRI studies; Affective and linguistic processing of speech prosody: DC potential studies; Lateralization of emotional prosody in the brain: an overview and synopsis on the impact of study design; Psychoacoustic studies on the processing of vocal interjections: how to disentangle lexical and prosodic information?; Judging emotion and attitudes from prosody following brain damage; ; Section 4. Integrateing Social Information; Processing of facial indentity and expression: a psychophysical, physiological and computational perspective; Investigating audiovisual integration of emotional signals in the human brain; Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuli; Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition; Empathizing: neurocognitive developmental mechanisms and individual differences; The multiple facets of empathy: a survey of theory and evidence; ; Section 5. Understanding Emotional Disorders; Partly dissociable neural substrates for recognizing basic emotions: a critical review; Integration of emotion and cognition in patients with psychopathy; Disordered emotional processing in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage; The biochemistry of dysfunctional emotions: proton MR spectroscopic findings in major depressive disorder.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Elsevier Science
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (522 pages)
• Subjects: 616.89; Emotions -- Physiological aspects; Affective disorders -- Physiological aspects; Brain -- Localization of functions; Neuropsychology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080466064; 0080466060
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