Emotional functions and cognitive processes

Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes.

Introduction Pupillometric measures of cognitive and emotional processes Changes in pupil diameter provide a unique window on brain activity. We would like to thank Dr John Andreassi, editor of the International Journal of Psychophysiology, for the opportunity to be guest editors of this special issue on pupillometric studies. This volume is an expansion of the symposium 'Pupillometry and Cogni...

Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Persecutory Delusions

Emergent processes in cognitive-emotional interactions

Emotion and cognition have been viewed as largely separate entities in the brain. Within this framework, significant progress has been made in understanding specific aspects of behavior. Research in the past two decades, however, has started to paint a different picture of brain organization, one in which network interactions are key to understanding complex behaviors. From both basic and clini...

Cognitive and emotional processes during dreaming: a neuroimaging view.

Dream is a state of consciousness characterized by internally-generated sensory, cognitive and emotional experiences occurring during sleep. Dream reports tend to be particularly abundant, with complex, emotional, and perceptually vivid experiences after awakenings from rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. This is why our current knowledge of the cerebral correlates of dreaming, mainly derives from ...

Introduction: Pupillometric Measures of Cognitive and Emotional Processes