Comment: What’s Basic About the Brain Mechanisms of Emotion?

Emotion Review 6 (4):318-320 (2014)
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While it is common to think that neuroscientists are proponents of basic emotions theory, this is not necessarily the case. My ideas, for example are more aligned with cognitive than basic emotions theories.

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