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A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain.The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that emotion interacts with cognition in the brain. In this book, Luiz Pessoa moves beyond the debate over functional specialization, describing the many ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain. The amygdala is often viewed as the quintessential emotional region of the brain, but Pessoa reviews findings revealing that many of its functions contribute to attention and decision making, critical components of cognitive functions. He counters the idea of a subcortical pathway to the amygdala for affective visual stimuli with an alternate framework, the multiple waves model. Citing research on reward and motivation, Pessoa also proposes the dual competition model, which explains emotional and motivational processing in term

Who reads The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration (The MIT Press)?

Author

Luiz Pessoa

Publisher

The MIT Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262314756

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Medical

Rating

3.89 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14