Emotion shapes nearly every aspect of human activity — from learning to memory to decision-making — and even influences evolution, University of Southern California neuroscience professor Antonio ...

This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? “Understanding the cognitive basis of emotional experience is a subset of the problem of understanding the cognitive foundations of ...

World renowned neurobiologist Antonio Damasio joins Larry Mantle to talk about the newly created Institute for the Neurobiological Study of Emotion, Decision-making and Creativity, that he and his ...

What is consciousness, and how does it emerge from the flesh of the brain? For generations, this domain of thought was reserved for philosophers. Today neuroscientists also grapple with this question, ...

In his new book, “Feeling & Knowing,” the prominent Portuguese-American neuroscientist Antonio Damasio explores how emotions play a central role in what we do, how we think, and who we are. This has ...

In a data-driven world, Antonio Damasio is one of our best advocates for the power of emotion. In his research and in his popular books like “Descartes’ Error” and “Self Comes to Mind: Constructing ...

A new study from MIT neuroscientists suggests that our ability to respond appropriately to intended harms — that is, with outrage toward the perpetrator — is seated in a brain region associated with ...

Consider the following scenario: someone you know has AIDS and plans to infect others, some of whom will die. Your only options are to let it happen or to kill the person. Do you pull the trigger?

Embodied emotion, a concept from cognitive and social psychology, explores the interaction between the body, emotions and cognition. It sheds light on the processes by which our bodily experiences ...

“A theory of consciousness that cannot account for emotions is hardly a theory of consciousness.”—Joseph LeDoux 1 This is Part 4 of a four-part series on What Actually Are Emotions? Antonio Damasio’s ...