Categorical Perception of Happiness and Fear Facial Expressions: An ERP Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Emotional Modulation of Cognitive Processing: An fMRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An emotional recognition architecture based on human brain structure
ICANN/ICONIP'03 Proceedings of the 2003 joint international conference on Artificial neural networks and neural information processing
2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion
Neural Networks - Special issue: Emotion and brain
Introduction: 'Emotion and brain: Understanding emotions and modelling their recognition'
Neural Networks - Special issue: Emotion and brain
2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion
Neural Networks - Special issue: Emotion and brain
2006 Special Issue: Attention as a controller
Neural Networks
Spoken language processing: Piecing together the puzzle
Speech Communication
Emotions in Speech: Juristic Implications
Speaker Classification I
The Role of Attention in Creating a Cognitive System
Attention in Cognitive Systems. Theories and Systems from an Interdisciplinary Viewpoint
ICANN'07 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Artificial neural networks
A novel middleware solution to improve ubiquitous healthcare systems aided by affective information
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine - Special section on affective and pervasive computing for healthcare
Towards a control theory of attention
ICANN'06 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks - Volume Part II
A review of cognitive processing in the brain
ICANN'05 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Artificial Neural Networks: biological Inspirations - Volume Part I
A computational model of action resonance and its modulation by emotional stimulation
Cognitive Systems Research
A brain-inspired computational model of emotion and attention interaction
BI'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Brain Informatics
Analysis of Human Emotions Using Galvanic Skin Response and Finger Tip Temperature
International Journal of Synthetic Emotions
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We analyse emotions from the viewpoint of how emotion and attention interact in the brain. Much has been learnt about the brain structures involved in attention, especially in vision. In particular the manner in which attention functions as a high-level control system, able to make cognitive processing so effective, has been studied both at a global level by brain imaging (fMRI, PET, MEG and EEG), at a local single cell level in monkeys and lower animals, and computationally by a variety of models. The manner in which emotions impinge on this attention control system is not so well analysed, although numerous new results are now emerging from using the same tools. Here we use an engineering control approach to attention to model it in a global manner but with relatively sure local foundations at singe neuron level. The manner in which emotional value (as coded in amygdale and orbito-frontal cortex) can interact with the attention control circuitry is analysed using results of various experimental paradigms. A general model of this interaction is first developed and tested against a list of paradigms, and then more detailed computations are performed using more specific features of the attention control system and the limbic value coding. These computations are completed by a simulation of the emotional attentional blink, a demanding paradigm for any model of attention alone, but made more so by the presence of emotional value codes for stimuli. We conclude the paper with a general discussion of further avenues of research.