Current Research and Emerging Directions in Emotion-Cognition Interactions

• Main Author: Mara Mather (auth)
• Other Authors: Lihong Wang (auth), Florin Dolcos (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; age-related differences; stress; social and personality neuroscience; Affective Disorders; Motivated Attention; Emotional Distraction; Emotional Memory; amygdala/prefrontal cortex
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Emotion can impact various aspects of our cognition and behavior, by enhancing or impairing them (e.g., enhanced attention to and memory for emotional events, or increased distraction produced by goal-irrelevant emotional information). On the other hand, emotion processing is also susceptible to cog...