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ReviewCognition & emotion2019

Concepts dissolve artificial boundaries in the study of emotion and cognition, uniting body, brain, and mind.

Katie Hoemann, Lisa Feldman Barrett

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Review in Cognition & emotion, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Katie Hoemanna Department of Psychology , Northeastern University , Boston , MA , USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9938-7676
Lisa Feldman Barretta Department of Psychology , Northeastern University , Boston , MA , USA.

Funding

Affect regulation and Beta Amyloid: Maturational Factors in Aging and Age-Related PathologyR01MH113234 · NIMH · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI DICKERSON, BRADFORD C, ISAACOWITZ, DEREK M · 2017 to 2021
$4.2M
Ovarian Effects on Intrinsic Connectivity and the Affective Enhancement of MemoryR01MH109464 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ANDREANO, JOSEPH M, BARRETT, LISA FELDMAN · 2017 to 2021
$3.5M
Fundamental subcortical mechanisms of affective processingU01CA193632 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI BARRETT, LISA FELDMAN, SATPUTE, AJAY · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
Improving measurement of emotional granularity to investigate affective mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndromeF31HL140943 · NHLBI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI HOEMANN, KATHERINE ANNE · 2018 to 2019
$77k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA193632NHLBI NIH HHS F31 HL140943NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH109464NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH113234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theories of emotion have often maintained artificial boundaries: for instance, that cognition and emotion are separable, and that an emotion concept is separable from the emotional events that comprise its category (e.g. "fear" is distinct from instances of fear). Over the past several years, research has dissolved these artificial boundaries, suggesting instead that conceptual construction is a domain-general process-a process by which the brain makes meaning of the world. The brain constructs emotion concepts, but also cognitions and perceptions, all in the service of guiding action. In this view, concepts are multimodal constructions, dynamically prepared from a set of highly variable instances. This approach obviates old questions (e.g. how does cognition regulate emotion?) but generates new ones (e.g. how does a brain learn emotion concepts?). In this paper, we review this constructionist, predictive coding account of emotion, considering its implications for health and well-being, culture and development.

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ResearchBrainCognitionEmotionsHumansconceptualisationconstructionembodimentlanguagePrediction

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PMID30336722
PMCPMC6399041

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