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.
Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Models of Emotion: 1. Theories of emotion for human affective neuroscience David Sander; 2. The emotional brain: a network perspective and the processing of fear Luiz Pessoa; Part II. Measuring Emotional Processes: 3. Neuropsychology and lesion models Elisa Ciaramelli and Giuseppe di Pellegrino; 4. Peripheral physiological measures of emotion Sylvia D. Kreibig; 5. Functional MRI: principles and applications in affective neuroscience Jorge Armony, Joana Leitão and Corrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua; 6. Mapping the human emotion circuits with positron emission tomography Lauri Nummenmaa and Jussi Hirvonen; 7. Electro- and magnetoencephalography Richard T. Ward, Christian Panitz and Andreas Keil; 8. The study of emotion in other animals: a primer for humans Stoyo Karamihalev and Nadine Gogolla; Part III. Emotion Perception and Elicitation: 9. The perception of facial expressions of emotion Helen Rodger and Roberto Caldara; 10. Body of knowledge: the emerging science of emotional body expressions Maya Lecker and Hillel Aviezer; 11. A lifespan perspective of emotion in voice perception Ana P. Pinheiro and Sonja A. Kotz; 12. Pain in the brain Jae-Joong Lee and Choong-Wan Woo; 13. Olfaction and emotion Agnieszka Sabiniewicz, Pengfei Han, Antje Hähner, Yling Mai, Divesh Thaploo, Martin Witt and Thomas Hummel; 14. Music, emotion, and reward Psyche Loui and Jinyu Wang; 15. Language and emotion concepts in the predictive brain Natalie G. Frye and Kristen A. Lindquist; Part IV. Emotional Learning and Memory: 16. Conditioned fear learning Kevin S. LaBar; 17. Reward learning in a social world Casey M. Nicastri, Jordan M. Siegel, Dominic S. Fareri and Mauricio R. Delgado; 18. Episodic emotional memory Elizabeth A. Kensinger, Sandry M. Garcia and R. Gerald Monkman; Part V. Cognition–Emotion Interactions: 19. Affective biases in attention, cognitive control, and awareness Judith Domínguez-Borràs, Alexia Bourgeois and Patrik Vuilleumier; 20. How emotional expressions motivate action Rocco Mennella and Julie Grèzes; 21. From perception to action: understanding evolution of survival decisions in humans and other species Dean Mobbs, Ketika Garg and Sarah M. Tashjian; 22. Neural mechanisms of arbitration between multiple experts in value-based decision-making Cooper Grossman and John P. O'Doherty; 23. The affective neuroscience of emotion regulation: insights from two decades of research Nils Kohn and Carmen Morawetz; Part VI. Social Emotions: 24. Empathy and compassion Hannah Matthaeus and Tania Singer; 25. Moral emotions Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza and Jorge Moll; 26. Neural evidence for cultural variation in emotion Elizabeth Blevins and Jeanne Tsai; 27. Neurodevelopment of emotional processes in adolescent social contexts Michelle Shipkova, Junqiang Dai, Kristen A. Lindquist and Eva H. Telzer; Part VII. Individual Differences: 28. Affective neuroscience of aging: an interplay of organic brain changes and shifting goals Natalie C. Ebner, Nichole R. Lighthall, and Dalia El-Shafie; 29. The affective neuroscience of post-traumatic stress disorder Jennifer Strafford Stevens; 30. Emotion and affective disorders Philippe Fossati, Jean-Yves Rotgé, Zeynep Yoldas, Willys Cantenys, Alice Guesdon, Hugo Bottemanne and Liane Schmidt; 31. Preclinical models of emotional dysregulations in animals Thibault P. Bittar, Joeri Bordes, Céline Nicolas, Gwendolyn G. Calhoon and Anna Beyeler.
Jorge Armony is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University. His research focuses on neurocognitive bases of affective and social processes, including perception, attention, memory and decision-making. He conducts research using behavioral, physiological, computational and neuroimaging approaches. Patrik Vuilleumier is professor of neuroscience at the University of Geneva. He specializes in behavioral neurology, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging with functional MRI and EEG. His work on brain circuits mediating affective processes and their disorders has helped uncover how emotion influences cognitive functions and behavior.
Reviews for The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
'The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience (2E) brings together the best neuroscientists and psychologists in the field to provide exciting snapshots of progress in understanding brain bases of emotion and decision making. How do encounters with odors, others, music and morality evoke our emotions? The authors cover these and other topics ranging from major psychological theories of emotion, to cutting-edge techniques, and interactions of emotion with cognition, language and culture. This handbook is invaluable to anyone who wishes to understand emotional brains.' Kent Berridge, James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Michigan, USA
