"A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we need to examine its biological roots in humans and animals. Only through a comparative approach that encompasses work at the molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive levels will we be able to comprehend what emotions do, how they evolved, how the brain shapes their development, and even how we might engineer them into robots in the future. Showing that emotions are ubiquitous across species and implemented in specific brain circuits, Adolphs and Anderson offer a broad foundation for thinking about emotions as evolved, functionally defined biological states. The authors discuss the techniques and findings from modern neuroscientific investigations of emotion and conclude with a survey of theories and future research directions. Featuring color illustrations throughout, The Neuroscience of Emotion synthesizes the latest in neuroscientific work to provide deeper insights into how emotions function in all of us."--.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART I. Foundations
  • CHAPTER 1. What Don’t We Know about Emotions?
    • Emotions According to Inside Out
    • Toward a Science of Emotion
    • Emotions Are Decoupled Reflexes
    • Questions We Will Not Answer in This Book
    • What Do We Want to Know about Emotions?
  • CHAPTER 2. A Framework for Studying Emotions
    • Warm-Up: Neuroscience Questions about Emotion
    • Toward a Functional Definition of Emotion
    • Proper Functions and Malfunctions
    • Emotions and Consciousness
    • An Experimental Example
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 3. Building Blocks and Features of Emotions
    • Building Blocks versus Features
    • A Provisional List of Emotion Properties
    • Summary
• PART II. Neuroscience
  • CHAPTER 4. The Logic of Neuroscientific Explanations
    • Levels of Biological Organization
    • The Concept of Mechanism in Neuroscience
    • Testing Causal Relationships between Neural Activity and Behavior
    • Levels of Abstraction
    • Mixing of Terms in Neuroscience Explanations
    • Necessity, Sufficiency, and Normalcy
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 5. The Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals: General Considerations
    • Why Do We Need Studies of the Neurobiology of Emotion in Animals?
    • What Do We Want to Understand about Emotion by Studying Animals?
    • The Relationship of Emotion States to Motivation, Arousal, and Drive
    • Psychiatric Drugs, Animal Models, and Emotions
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 6. The Neuroscience of Emotion in Rodents
    • Emotion, Fear, and the Amygdala
    • Innate Defensive Behaviors and Emotions
    • Distributed versus Localized Emotions in the Brain
    • Anxiety
    • Other Emotion States: Aggression and Anger
    • Positively Valenced Emotion States
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 7. Emotions in Insects and Other Invertebrates
    • Learned Avoidance Behavior in Drosophila
    • Does Drosophila Have Emotion States?
    • Anxiety in Insects and Other Arthropods
    • Emotion States and Social Behavior in Insects
    • Internal States in Other Invertebrates
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 8. Tools and Methods in Human Neuroscience
    • Historical Neuroscience Studies of Emotion in Humans
    • fMRI Studies of Emotion: The Method
    • Similarity Analyses
    • fMRI in Animals?
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 9. The Neuroscience of Emotion in Humans
    • fMRI Studies of Emotion: The Logic and the Challenge
    • Lessons from Two Examples: Music and Faces
    • Attributing Emotions to Others
    • Imaging Emotion Concepts
    • Feeling Emotions
    • Central Emotion States
    • Dissociating Emotion States from Concepts and Experience
    • Summary
• PART III. Open Questions
  • CHAPTER 10. Theories of Emotions and Feelings
    • The Structure of Affect
    • Theories of Feelings
    • Philosophy of Emotion
    • Taking Stock
    • Summary
  • CHAPTER 11. Summary and Future Directions
    • The Main Points of This Book
    • Feelings Again
    • Future Experiments
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
• References
• Index