--- title: Cognition & Emotion description: This field explores the neural mechanisms underlying mental processes and emotional states. Learners will understand how the brain processes information, makes decisions, regulates feelings, and how cognitive functions interact with emotional responses to shape behavior. category: sciences subcategory: neuroscience difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/cognition-and-emotion --- # Cognition & Emotion This field explores the neural mechanisms underlying mental processes and emotional states. Learners will understand how the brain processes information, makes decisions, regulates feelings, and how cognitive functions interact with emotional responses to shape behavior. ## Available Resources 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Affective Neuroscience Lab Kent Berridge's University of Michigan lab studies the neuroscience of pleasure, desire, and motivation, including the 'liking' versus 'wanting' distinction in reward and addiction. The site links to published papers and ongoing research. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/research&labs/affective-neuroscience-lab.html **Tags:** affective-neuroscience, emotion, motivation, reward, academic-lab ### 2. Society for Affective Science An academic laboratory site presenting research on how the brain, body, and environment jointly produce emotion, cognition, and perception, with publications, research tools, and study participation information for affective science researchers. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.affective-science.org/ **Tags:** affective-science, emotion-research, academic-lab, psychology ### 3. emotionresearcher.com Emotion Researcher is an online magazine that serves as a resource hub for the science of emotion, offering news, feature articles, interviews, and practical materials for researchers, students, and educators exploring affect, cognition, and emotion regulation. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://emotionresearcher.com **Tags:** websites, science-research, neuroscience ## Courses ### 1. Introduction to Psychology What are people most afraid of? What do our dreams mean? Are we natural-born racists? What makes us happy? What are the causes and cures of mental illness? This course tries to answer these questions and many others, providing a comprehensive overview of the scientific study of thought and behavior. It explores topics such as perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, persuasion, emotions, and social behavior. We will look at how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, and how they break down due to illness and injury. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/introduction-psychology **Tags:** psychology, cognitive-science, mental-illness, social-behavior, intro-course ## Podcasts ### 1. More Than A Feeling (Ten Percent Happier) **Author:** Saleem Reshamwala Limited podcast series from Ten Percent Happier in which host Saleem Reshamwala investigates emotions with neuroscientists, historians, philosophers, musicians and therapists. Listeners gain a grounded understanding of why emotions arise and how to decide which ones to act on. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.tenpercent.com/morethanafeeling **Tags:** emotions, emotional-regulation, neuroscience, mindfulness, wellbeing ### 2. The Prefrontal **Author:** Sucheta Kamath Welcome to the podcast, Full PreFrontal: Exposing the Mysteries of Executive Function hosted by Sucheta Kamath. Executive Function is a core set of cognitive skills that allow humans to focus attention, block out distractions, plan ahead, stay engaged, temper emotions, and think flexibly while creatively solving problems to fulfill personal and social goals. The prefrontal cortex region of the brain, which governs Executive Function, is often compared to an air traffic control system at a busy airport. Much like an air traffic controller guides planes on different flight paths in the direction that each needs to go, the prefrontal cortex i... **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://mailchi.mp/7c848462e96f/full-prefrontal-sign-up **Tags:** executive-function, psychology, podcast, cognitive-science --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/cognition-and-emotion