Emotion and Cognition

by Elsevier Science

Overview

Emotion and Cognition, Volume 246, consists of 16 chapters on recent scientific advances in emotion and cognition research. The chapters include theoretical, review, and empirical chapters presenting original data on interactions between emotion and cognition. Chapters touch on a variety of topics, including Common and different mechanisms underlying the processing of extrinsic and intrinsic emotion, Looming fear stimuli broadens attention in a local-global letter task, Reading thoughts and feelings in other people – how age shapes empathic accuracy, How does aging influence emotion-cognition links?, and The Motivational Dimensional Model of affect: A review of the past 10 years, and more.

• Presents the latest research on the interaction between emotion and cognition
• Uniquely focuses on how these supposedly different aspects interact
• Contains contributions from world-renowned experts on emotion and cognition research

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444642530
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	06/05/2019
Series:	ISSN
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	456
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Narayanan Srinivasan, Ph.D., is currently Professor and Head at the Centre of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (CBCS), University of Allahabad. Dr. Srinivasan was a visiting scientist at the Riken Brain Science Institute from 2006-2012. He has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science and PhD in Psychology from University of Georgia. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Louisville. He also worked at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for two years before joining one of the first centres for Cognitive Science in India. He has been working at CBCS for the past fourteen years. He is interested in understanding mental processes, especially attention, emotions, consciousness and meditation using multiple methodologies. Dr. Srinivasan has edited seven books and three special issues. He has more than hundred and forty publications. Dr. Srinivasan is a fellow of Association for Psychological Science. He was the Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Mind, Brain, and Cognition. He is currently an associate editor of Neuroscience of Consciousness, Royal Society Open Science, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, PsyCh journal, and Cognitive Processing and a member of the editorial board of Connection Science and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.

Table of Contents

1. Interactions between reward motivation and emotional processing Srikanth Padmala 2. Common and different mechanisms underlying the processing of extrinsic and intrinsic emotion Rashmi Gupta 3. Looming fear stimuli broadens attention in a local-global letter task Adrian von Muhlenen and Lauren Bellaera 4. Reading thoughts and feelings in other people – how age shapes empathic accuracy Elisabeth Sophie Blanke 5. How does aging influence emotion-cognition links? Derek Isaacowitz 6. The Motivational Dimensional Model of affect: A review of the past 10 years Philip Gable 7. Cognition in the face of expressions of anger and happiness: signal and receiver trade-offs across multiple levels of information pick-up David Becker 8. Reciprocal interactions between emotion and attention Narayanan Srinivasan 9. Effect of affective valence on cognitive control and emotion regulation Bhoomika R. Kar 10. What drives prioritised stimulus processing? An argument for motivational salience Frances Anne Maratos 11. The affective and motivational consequences of neurocognitive inhibition Mark Fenske 12. Reward and Empathy: Insights for and from Autism Bhismadev Chakrabarti 13. Ambiguity and the temporal dynamics of compound threat cue perception Reginald Adams 14. A translational neuroscience perspective on dispositional negativity and attention to threat Alexander J. Shackman 15. Emotion and Motivation based Modulation of the Mirror Neuron System in Schizophrenia and Its Clinical Relevance Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta 16. How language (native versus nonnative) influences judgment and choice Constantinos Hadjichristidis