Understanding Emotions

Section I. Attention and Motivation in Emotional Decoding.<br>Emotion, motivation and the brain: reflex foundations in animal and human research.<br>Emotion and attention: event-related brain potential studies.<br>Implicit and explicit categorization of natural scenes.<br>Dynamics of emotional effects on spatial attention in the human visual cortex.<br>Teh neural basis of narrative imagery: emotion and action.<br>Subliminal emotion perception in brain imaging: findings, issues and recommendations.<br>Neuroimaging methods in affective neuroscience: selected methodological issues.<br><br>Section 2. Understanding Emotional Language Content.<br>Emotional and sematinc networks in visual word processing - insights from ERP studies.<br>Event-related potential studies of language and emotion: words, phrases and task effects.<br>Emotional connotation of words: role of emotion in distributed semantic systems.<br>Macroscopic brain dynamics during verbal and pictorial processing of affective stimuli.<br><br>Section 3. Understanding Emotional Intonation.<br>Intonation as an interface between language and affect.<br>Cerebral processing of linguistic and emotional prosody: fMRI studies.<br>Affective and linguistic processing of speech prosody: DC potential studies.<br>Lateralization of emotional prosody in the brain: an overview and synopsis on the impact of study design.<br>Psychoacoustic studies on the processing of vocal interjections: how to disentangle lexical and prosodic information?<br>Judging emotion and attitudes from prosody following brain damage.<br><br>Section 4. Integrateing Social Information.<br>Processing of facial indentity and expression: a psychophysical, physiological and computational perspective.<br>Investigating audiovisual integration of emotional signals in the human brain.<br>Role of the amygdala in processing visual social stimuli.<br>Towards a unifying neural theory of social cognition.<br>Empathizing: neurocognitive developmental mechanisms and individual differences.<br>The multiple facets of empathy: a survey of theory and evidence.<br><br>Section 5. Understanding Emotional Disorders.<br>Partly dissociable neural substrates for recognizing basic emotions: a critical review.<br>Integration of emotion and cognition in patients with psychopathy.<br>Disordered emotional processing in schizophrenia and one-sided brain damage.<br>The biochemistry of dysfunctional emotions: proton MR spectroscopic findings in major depressive disorder.