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Neuropsychological Perspectives On Emotion: A Special Issue Of 'Cognition & Emotion' (Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion)
Neuropsychological Perspectives On Emotion A Special Issue Of 'Cognition Emotion' - Special Issues of Cognition and Emotion Author:Watts Recent work on the neurological substrates of emotion promises to make a significant contribution to general theoretical issues concerning emotion. In a keynote paper for this volume, Klaus Scherer identifies these as including the interaction between cognition and emotion, the nature of the evaluative criteria employed in appraisal processes in... more »volved in emotion, whether these appraisal processes are organized sequentially or in parallel, and how far there is a differential patterning of discrete emotions. In a related general paper, Gerald Parrott and Jay Schulkin adopt a neuroscience perspective on the cognition-emotion debate, arguing that any affective system in the brain must be sophisticated enough in its computations to justify the label "cognitive". This is followed by an exchange in which Joseph Le Doux debates these issues with Parrott and Schulkin. A second group of papers focuses on the issue of hemispheric specialization in the neural substrate of emotion. Guido Gainotti and his colleagues examine the relationship between left/right and cortical/subcortical dichotomies in brain specialization for emotion. Next, Elisabeth Ladavas presents significant empirical data from the study of a split-brain patient. Finally, Richard Davidson reviews the critical methodological and conceptual issues in studying cerebral asymmetries associated with emotion, emphasizing the importance of acknowledging the multi-componential nature of emotion. This collection of papers thus assesses the current contribution of neurological studies of emotion to more general emotion theory, and anticipates the prospects for a growing neurological contribution from future work.« less