Emotional Cognition gives the reader an up to date overview of the current state of emotion and cognition research that is striving for computationally explicit

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

A study of the phenomenon of emotion contagion, or the communication of mood to others.

This cutting-edge, yet accessible book provides a complete and integrated assessment of the role of emotions in a wide variety of cognitive functions. Including

The seventeen contributions to this volume demonstrate the enormous progress that has been achieved recently in our understanding of emotions. Current cognitive