Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The
neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within the …

Recent imaging studies show that the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is activated during a wide
variety of paradigms, including guessing tasks, simple delayed matching tasks and sentence …

An enduring and richly elaborated dichotomy in cognitive neuroscience is that of reflective
versus reflexive decision making and choice. Other literatures refer to the two ends of what is …

Over the past few decades, neuroimaging has become a ubiquitous tool in basic research
and clinical studies of the human brain. However, no reference standards currently exist to …

In this paper we introduce the idea of explaining responses, in one cortical area, in terms of
an interaction between the influence of another area and some experimental (sensory or task…

Our ability to have an experience of another's pain is characteristic of empathy. Using functional
imaging, we assessed brain activity while volunteers experienced a painful stimulus and …

… Relative interoceptive accuracy tended to correlate with depressive symptoms (R = 0.48,
P = 0.09) and trait ratings of negative affective experience (R = 0.51, P = 0.08). Trends in …

Instrumental conditioning studies how animals and humans choose actions appropriate to
the affective structure of an environment. According to recent reinforcement learning models, …

The ability of normal children and adults to attribute independent mental states to self and
others in order to explain and predict behaviour (“theory of mind”) has been a focus of much …

… These ratings correlated well with the proportion of the fearful or happy prototype in the
morphed face (correlation coefficients: r = O. 772 for fearful, r = 0.826 for happy). In a separate …