The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience / edited by Jorge L. Armony, Patrik Vuilleumier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Armony, Jorge, 1965- editor.

Vuilleumier, Patrik, 1965- editor.

Series:

Cambridge handbooks in psychology.

Cambridge handbooks in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affective neuroscience.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 642 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Human affective science has advanced rapidly over the past decades, emerging as a central topic in the study of the mind. This handbook provides a comprehensive and authoritative road map to the field, encompassing the most important topics and methods. It covers key issues related to basic processes including perception of, and memory for, different types of emotional information, as well as how these are influenced by individual, social and cultural factors. Methods such as functional neuroimaging are also covered. Evidence from clinical studies of brain disease such as anxiety and mood disorders shed new light on the functioning of emotion in all brains. In covering a dynamic and multifaceted field of study, this book will appeal to students and researchers in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, biology, medicine, education, social sciences, and philosophy.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction

Note

Section I Theoretical Models of Emotion

1 Theories of Emotion for Human Affective Neuroscience

Affectivism

Terminology, Taxonomies, and a Proposed Definition

Emotions Are Multicomponential Phenomena

Emotions Involve Elicitation Mechanisms That Produce Responses

Emotions Have Relevant Objects

Emotions Are Briefer Than Other Affective Phenomena

Theories of Emotion and Emotion Components

Is Emotion an Expression?

Is Emotion an Action Tendency?

Is Emotion a Bodily Reaction?

Is Emotion a Feeling?

Is Emotion a Cognition?

Conclusion

Outstanding Questions and Challenges

References

2 The Emotional Brain: A Network Perspective and the Processing of Fear

Fear and Anxiety

Circuits Involved in Fear-Related Processing

Conditioning in Humans: The Role of the Amygdala

Circuits Involved in Anxiety-Related Processing

Threat Detection and Beyond

Cortical Circuits

Subcortical Circuits

Back to Cortex

Neuroethological Approaches

Dynamic Threat Processing

Implications for the Study of Fear and Anxiety

Outstanding Questions

Section II Measuring Emotional Processes

3 Neuropsychology and Lesion Models

Amygdala

Emotional Learning

Emotion Recognition

Functional Significance of the Amygdala

Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

Acquired Sociopathy

Somatic Markers and Affective Evaluation

Computation of Subjective Value

Expression and Control of Emotional Responses

Social and Moral Cognition

Functional Significance of the vmPFC

Insula

Interoception

Recognition and Conscious Experience of Emotion

Functional Significance of the Insula.

Outstanding Questions

4 Peripheral Physiological Measures of Emotion

Skeletal Muscular Measures of Emotion

Electromyography

Facial Micro-expressions

Craniofacial Muscular Reflex Responses

Autonomic Measures of Emotion

The Cardiovascular System

Electrocardiography

Impedance Cardiography

Arterial BP Measurement

Pulse Photoplethysmography

Thermography

The Electrodermal System

Electrodermography

Respiratory Measures of Emotion

Respiratory Effort Monitoring

Capnography

Summary and Conclusion

5 Functional MRI: Principles and Applications in Affective Neuroscience

Principles of fMRI

Physical Bases

The BOLD Response

Neural Correlates of BOLD

fMRI Data Analysis

Univariate Analysis

Multivariate Pattern Analysis

Discriminating Emotional States with High Sensitivity

Testing Theories about Emotion Organization

Affect Biomarkers

Resting-State fMRI and Related Approaches

Using Connectivity Measures to Unravel Networks during Task and Rest

Some Issues Related to fMRI Acquisition, Design, and Analysis

Susceptibility Artifacts

Choice of the "Control" Condition

Block vs. Event-Related Designs

Modeling the HDR

Linearity of the HDR

Independence of Explanatory Variables

6 Mapping the Human Emotion Circuits with Positron Emission Tomography

Molecular Imaging of the Emotion Circuits In Vivo

Principles of PET

Modelling the PET Data

Imaging Targets for Brain-PET

Quantified Perfusion and Metabolic Imaging

Neuroreceptor Systems

Dopamine System

Opioid System

Serotonin and Endocannabinoid Systems

Beyond the Current State of the Art: PET-MRI, Total-Body PET, and Novel Targets

PET-MRI

Total-Body PET Imaging

Novel Targets.

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

7 Electro- and Magnetoencephalography

A Brief Introduction to EEG and MEG

Neurophysiological and Biophysical Mechanisms Underlying EEG and MEG

The Recording Process

Measures: What to Record and Examine in Affective Neuroscience Studies

Event-Related Potentials and Event-Related Fields

Measuring and Analyzing ERP/ERF Amplitude

ERP/ERF Latency Measures

ERP/ERF Topography, Source Estimation, and Decoding Analyses

Spectral Analyses

Stationarity, Aperiodic Activity, and 1/f Spectral Shape

Frequency Resolution and the Uncertainty Principle

Hemisphere Asymmetries and Human Affect

Time-Frequency Analyses

Psychometric Properties of EEG and MEG Parameters

Applications: Typical Paradigms for MEG and EEG in Affective Neurosciences

Event-Related Potentials/Fields Processing Transient Emotional Stimuli

Competition Paradigms

Aversive Conditioning

Concluding Remarks

Outstanding Questions and Future Directions

Acknowledgments

Notes

8 The Study of Emotion in Other Animals: A Primer for Humans

A Sidenote on Feelings

A Framework for Investigations of Emotion across Species

Mechanistic Investigation of Emotion in Nonhuman Animals: Infer, Correlate, and Perturb

Infer

Correlate

Perturb

Examples in Nonhuman Affective Neuroscience

Example 1: A Link between the Body and Emotion

Example 2: The Persistence of Emotion States

Example 3: Emotion Recognition

Section III Emotion Perception and Elicitation

9 The Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion

Facial Expressions of Emotion as Visual Signals

Neural Activations Associated with Facial Expressions of Emotion

The Development of Facial Expression Recognition.

The Influence of Experience on Facial Expression Recognition

Emotional Experience

Culture

Individual Differences

The Recognition of Static versus Dynamic Facial Expressions

Towards Ecologically Valid Experimental Designs

10 Body of Knowledge: The Emerging Science of Emotional Body Expressions

Neural Processing of Emotional Body Expressions

Perception of Body Expressions across Age

Cultural Differences in Perceiving Bodies

The Contextual Role of Bodies in Real-Life Emotion Recognition

Emotional Bodies Susceptibility to Contextual Influence

Conclusions and Future Directions

11 A Lifespan Perspective of Emotion in Voice Perception

The Voice of Emotion: An Overview

Age-Related Effects of Vocally Expressed Emotion

Infancy and Childhood

Adolescence

Adulthood

Older Adulthood

Age-Related Effects on the Perception of Emotion in the Voice

Age-Related Effects on Vocally Expressed Emotion and Their Impact on Emotion Recognition

Implications and Future Directions

12 Pain in the Brain

Early Theories of Pain

Cartesian Dualism

Specificity Theory

Gate Control Theory and Neuromatrix

Modern Brain Models of Pain

Distributed Brain Processing of Pain

Searching for the Pain Matrix

Whole-Brain Signatures of Pain and the Network Approach

Functional and Computational Models of Pain

Homeostatic Emotion Model

Motivation-Decision Model

Predictive Coding

Reinforcement Learning

Multidimensional Components of Pain

Expectation and Contexts

Attentional, Emotional, and Cognitive Regulation

Social Relationship

Future Directions.

Personalized, Extensive, and Naturalistic Sampling

Generative Modeling with Artificial Intelligence

Conclusions

13 Olfaction and Emotion

Anatomy of the Olfactory System and Its Relation to Limbic Structures

Central Olfactory Pathways and the Limbic Issue

Olfactory Bulb

Anterior Olfactory Nucleus

Olfactory Tubercle (or the Anterior Perforated Substance) and Possible Projections in the Ventral Striatum

Piriform Cortex

Anterior Cortical Nucleus of the Amygdala and the Extended Periamygdalar Cortex

Entorhinal Cortex

Insula and Orbitofrontal Cortex

Eliciting Emotions with Odorous Stimuli

Practical Use of Odors to Modulate Emotions

Assessment of Odor Pleasantness: Are There Neutral Odors?

Central Nervous Processing of Pleasant and Unpleasant Stimuli

Processing of Pleasant Stimuli

Processing of Unpleasant Stimuli

Olfactory Loss and Emotionality and Depression

Ingestion

Hazard Avoidance

Social Communication

Anhedonia and Depression

14 Music, Emotion, and Reward

Valence, Arousal, More? Continuous vs. Discrete Models for Music and Emotion

Neuropsychological Evidence

Traumatic Brain Injury and Lesion Studies

Parkinson's Disease

Dementia

Autism

Aspects of Music and Reward

Reward Sensitivity in Different Cultures

Music Reward across the Lifespan

Music and Reward in Aging

No Emotions for Music? Musical Anhedonia

Sensitivity and Specificity of Reward Responses for Musical Sounds

Reward System, Predictive Coding, and Gene-Culture Coevolution of Musicality

A New Musical System

Implications for Music-Based Interventions

15 Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain.

The Construction of Emotion: Predictions and Evidence for the Role of Language in Emotion.

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ISBN:

1-009-34289-4

1-009-34290-8

1-009-34291-6

OCLC:

1542821473