Understanding Emotions

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