memory, and decision-making

Reason and emotion have long been considered opposing forces. However, recent psychological and neuroscientific research has revealed that emotion and cognition are closely intertwined. Cognitive processing is needed to elicit emotional responses. At the same time, emotional re-sponses modulate and guide cognition to enable adaptive responses to the environment. Emotion determines how we perceive our world, organise our memory, and make im-portant decisions. In this review, we provide an overview of current theorising and research in the Affective Sciences. We describe how psychological theories of emotion con-ceptualise the interactions of cognitive and emotional pro-cesses. We then review recent research investigating how emotion impacts our perception, attention, memory, and decision-making. Drawing on studies with both healthy participants and clinical populations, we illustrate the mechanisms and neural substrates underlying the interac-tions of cognition and emotion. Key words: emotion; appraisal; cognition; perception; attention; memory; decision-making; amygdala; fMR