Emotion has a substantial influence on the cognitive processes in humans, including
perception, attention, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving. Emotion has a�…

Thanks to its safety and accessibility, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is extensively used
in clinical routine and research field, largely contributing to our understanding of the�…

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major
advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what�…

Emotional events often attain a privileged status in memory. Cognitive neuroscientists have
begun to elucidate the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying emotional�…

Understanding how fears are acquired is an important step in translating basic research to
the treatment of fear-related disorders. However, understanding how learned fears are�…

We discuss four ways in which emotion may relate to cognitive load during learning. One
perspective describes emotions as extraneous cognitive load, competing for the limited�…

Cognitive neuroscience continues to build meaningful connections between affective
behavior and human brain function. Within the biological sciences, a similar renaissance�…

Children exposed to various forms of adversity early in life are at increased risk for a broad
range of developmental difficulties, affecting both cognitive and emotional adjustment. We�…

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels�…

Background Many studies report smaller hippocampal and amygdala volumes in
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but findings have not always been consistent. Here�…