Section 16.1
• How do emotions work as interrupt mechanisms to stop the serial information processes in Simon’s proposal? Do you agree or disagree with this?
• What do Ekman’s findings in the universal emotions study tell us? Do you think that another basic emotion might exist in a particular society?
Section 16.2
• Why did affective scientists turn to multidimensional approach to study emotion? What are the advantages this approach would have?
• How do you think the schema of an emotional episode could allow affective scientists to study emotions?
Section 16.3
• How would you explain damages in different areas of the amygdala link to hypovigilance and hypervigilance?
• How does neuroimaging technique help us understand fear in human? What did Mobbs and colleagues find in their 2010 study?
Are there universal expressions of emotion? (TED talk by Sophie Zadeh)
The Social Brain (TED talk by Ralph Adolphs)
The Inner Life of the Brain: Fear, Sex, and Violence (lecture by David Anderson from YouTube caltech channel)
Method of the Year 2010: Optogenetics (video from YouTube nature video channel)
NIH basic training course on transcranial magnetic stimulation (video from YouTube NIH channel)
16.1 Early Theories
Theories of Emotion (entry from Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Models of emotion (entry from Scholarpedia)
Facial expression analysis (entry from Scholarpedia)
Universal Emotions (an introduction from Paul Ekman Group)
Motivation and emotional controls of cognition (paper by Simon, 1967, in Psychological Review)
A Circumplex Model of Affect (paper by Russell, 1980, in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology)
Rethinking the Emotional Brain (paper by LeDoux, 2012, in Neuron)
Demystifying the role of emotion in behaviour: toward a goal-directed account (paper by Moors and Fischer, 2019, in Cognition and Emotion)
The rise of affectivism (paper by Dukes et al., 2021, in Nature Human Behaviour)
16.2 Affective Space and the Affective Scientist’s Toolkit
emotional episode (an overview from ScienceDirect Topics)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (entry from Scholarpedia)
The circumplex model of affect: An integrative approach to affective neuroscience, cognitive development, and psychopathology (paper by Posner, Russell, and Peterson, 2005, in Development and Psychology)
A Framework for Studying Emotions across Species (a review paper from Anderson and Adolphs, 2014, in Cell)
Anti-depressant and anxiolytic like behaviors in PKCI/HINT1 knockout mice associated with elevated plasma corticosterone level (a paper by Barbier and Wang, 2009, in BMC Neuroscience)
Genetics of emotion (a paper by Bevilacqua and Goldman, 2012, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Genetically encoded calcium indicators (brief introduction from Cornell Heart Lung Blood Resource for Optogenetic Mouse Signaling)
Genetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (brief introduction from BRAIN Initiative webpage)
Lesion studies in contemporary neuroscience (review article by Vaidya et al., 2019, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Brain Stimulation Therapies (a brief introduction from NIH)
Appraisal Theories of Emotion: State of the Art and Future Development (paper by Moors et al., 2013, in Emotion Review)
Emotion and Decision Making (paper by Lerner et al., 2015, in Annual Review of Psychology)
16.3 Fear: A Multilevel and Multidisciplinary Case Study
Fear conditioning (entry from Behavioral and Functional Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford)
Human Fear Conditioning and Extinction in Neuroimaging: A Systematic Review (review paper by Sehlmeyer et al., 2009, in PloS One)
The Biology of Fear (paper by Adolphs, 2013, in Current Biology)
Emotion Circuits in the Brain (paper by LeDoux, 2000, in Annual Review of Neuroscience)
Different Contributions of the Human Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex to Decision-Making (paper by Bechara et al., 1999, in Journal of Neuroscience)
Urbach-Wiethe syndrome (case report by Parida et al., 2015, in BMJ Case Reports)
The somatic marker hypothesis: A critical evaluation (paper by Dunn et al., 2006, in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)
Fear conditioning and extinction across development: Evidence from human studies and animal models (review article by Shechner et al., 2014, in Biological Psychology)
The human amygdala and the induction and experience of fear (paper by Feinstein et al., 2011, in Current biology : CB)
The amygdala and decision making (paper by Gupta et al., 2011, in Neuropsychologia)
Neural activity associated with monitoring the oscillating threat value of a tarantula (paper by Mobbs et al., 2010, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage (paper by Feinstein et al., 2013, in Nature Neuroscience)
Neural Representations of Emotion Are Organized around Abstract Event Features (paper by Skerry and Saxe, 2015, in Current Biology)
Overshadowed by the amygdala: the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis emerges as key to psychiatric disorders (paper by Lebow and Chen, 2016, in Molecular Psychiatry)
Decoding the nature of emotion in the brain (review paper by Kragel and Labar, 2016, in Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
Formalizing emotion concepts within a Bayesian model of theory of mind (paper by Saxe and Houlihan, 2017, in Current Opinion in Psychology)
