Emotion, Cognition, and Behavior

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 298; no. 5596; pp. 1191 - 1194
• Main Author: Dolan, R. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Association for the Advancement of Science 08-11-2002; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Amygdala; Analysis; Anatomical correlates of behavior; Anxiety Disorders; Attention; Attention - physiology; Behavior - physiology; Behavior Patterns; Behavioral neuroscience; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Blindness; Brain; Brain - physiology; Brain damage; Brain Mapping; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition - physiology; Cognitive psychology; Decision Making; Emotion; Emotional expression; Emotional states; Emotions; Emotions - physiology; Fear; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Information Processing; Learning - physiology; Memory; Memory - physiology; Mental Disorders; Mental Processes - physiology; Neural Pathways; Neurological Impairments; Neurology; Neurons; Patients; Perception - physiology; Psychological Patterns; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychophysiology; Resistance (Psychology); Review; Stimuli; Learning; Human; Decision making; Memory; Central nervous system; Attention; Perception; Cognition; Emotion emotionality; Review; Behavior; Brain (vertebrata)
• ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
• DOI: 10.1126/science.1076358

Emotion is central to the quality and range of everyday human experience. The neurobiological substrates of human emotion are now attracting increasing interest within the neurosciences motivated, to a considerable extent, by advances in functional neuroimaging techniques. An emerging theme is the question of how emotion interacts with and influences other domains of cognition, in particular attention, memory, and reasoning. The psychological consequences and mechanisms underlying the emotional modulation of cognition provide the focus of this article.