The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience

This handbook is the only single volume to capture the current range of neuroscience approaches to human emotion.

Jorge Armony (Edited by), Patrik Vuilleumier (Edited by)

9780521171557, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 21 January 2013

676 pages, 76 b/w illus. 19 colour illus. 5 tables
25.3 x 17.8 x 3 cm, 1.29 kg

"This edited volume provides a welcome up-to-date review of current Literature in the neuroscience of emotion.... Twenty eight-chapters authored by established experts provide coverage that is both broad and deep.... Chapters are well organized into sections that help the reader find relevant information quickly.... The focus on human emotion, rather than on nonhuman models of affect, gives the book a necessary focus while still covering plenty of ground. True to the field, the chapters represent findings from a wide range of methodological techniques.... It can also serve as a useful companion to the other valuable handbooks about emotion that are not as neuroscience oriented.... Highly recommended..."
--R. Compton, Haverford College, CHOICE

Neuroscientific research on emotion has developed dramatically over the past decade. The cognitive neuroscience of human emotion, which has emerged as the new and thriving area of 'affective neuroscience', is rapidly rendering existing overviews of the field obsolete. This handbook provides a comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative survey of knowledge and topics investigated in this cutting-edge field. It covers a range of topics, from face and voice perception to pain and music, as well as social behaviors and decision making. The book considers and interrogates multiple research methods, among them brain imaging and physiology measurements, as well as methods used to evaluate behavior and genetics. Editors Jorge Armony and Patrik Vuilleumier have enlisted well-known and active researchers from more than twenty institutions across three continents, bringing geographic as well as methodological breadth to the collection. This timely volume will become a key reference work for researchers and students in the growing field of neuroscience.

Part I. Introduction to Human Affective Neuroscience: 1. Models of emotion: the affective neuroscience approach David Sander
Part II. Measuring Emotional Responses: 2. Objective and subjective measurements in affective science Katherine Gardhouse and Adam K. Anderson
3. A two-way road: efferent and afferent pathways of automatic activity in emotion Neil A. Harrison, Sylvia D. Kreibig and Hugo D. Critchley
4. Electro- and magneto-encephalography in the study of emotion Andreas Keil
5. PET and fMRI: basic principles and applications in affective neuroscience research Jorge Armony and Jung Eun Han
6. Lesion studies in affective neuroscience Lesley Fellows
Part III. Emotion Perception and Elicitation: 7. The facial expression of emotions Nathalie George
8. Bodily expressions of emotion: visual cues and neural mechanisms Anthony P. Atkinson
9. Pain and the emotional responses to noxious stimuli Pierre Rainville
10. Examining emotion perception and elicitation via olfaction Aprajita Mohanty and Jay A. Gottfried
11. Emotional voices: the tone of (true) feelings Caroline Bruck, Benjamin Kreifelts, Thomas Ethofer and Dirk Wildgruber
12. Emotion and music Stefan Koelsch
13. Love letters and hate mail: cerebral processing of emotional language content Johanna Kissler
Part IV. Cognitive-Emotion Interactions: 14. Affective biases in attention and perception Judith Dominguez-Borras and Patrick Vuilleumier
15. Top-down attention and the processing of emotional stimuli Luiz Pessoa, Leticia Oliverira and Mirtes Pereira
16. Emotion regulation K. Luan Phan and Chandra Sekhar Sripada
17. Neural mechanisms underlying value-based decision-making John P. Doherty
Part V. Emotional Learning and Memory: 18. Neural basis of human fear learning Joseph E. Dunsmoor and Kevin S. LaBar
19. Reward learning: contributions of cortibasal ganglia circuits to reward-value signals Dominic S. Fareri and Mauricio R. Delgado
20. Emotion in episodic memory: the effects of emotional content, emotional state, and motivational goals Alisha C. Holland and Elizabeth A. Kensinger
Part VI. Social Emotions: 21. Moral emotions Roland Zahn, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza and Jorge Moll
22. Social stress and social approach Markus Heinrichs, Frances S. Chen, Gregor Domes and Robert Kumsta
23. Empathy from the perspective of social neuroscience Olga Klimecki and Tania Singer
Part VII. Individual Differences in Emotion: 24. Trait anxiety, neuroticism, and the brain basis of vulnerability to affective disorders Sonia Bishop and Sophie Forster
25. Mapping neurogenetic mechanisms of individual differences in affect Ahmad A. Hariri
26. Sex differences in emotion Annett Schirmer
27. Development of affective circuitry Essi Viding, Catherine L. Sebastian and Eamon J. McCrory
28. Emotion and aging: linking neural mechanisms to psychological theory Peggy L. St Jacques, Amy Winecoff and Roberto Cabeza.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM]