CONTENTS -- Preface -- INTRODUCTORY LECTURE -- Emotion and Consciousness: Current Research and Controversies -- PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Introduction: Philosophical Perspectives -- Emotion and the Problem of Psychological Categories -- The Nature of Typical Emotions -- Determinants of Emotional Intensity -- Emotional Qualia -- Karl Jaspers' Phenomenological Approach to Emotion in his General Psychopathology -- Emotions Associated to Cognitive Revision as a Basis for Values -- Emotion and Intersubjective Perception: A Speculative Account -- BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Introduction: Biological Perspectives -- Evolutionary Perspectives on Emotion -- Towards a Genetics of Joy: Breeding Rats for "Laughter" -- The Neuroscience of Fear: Perspectives from Animal Research -- Amygdala and Processing of Information with Emotional Content -- Neuro-Affective Processes and the Brain Substrates of Emotion: Emerging Perspectives and Dilemmas -- The Affective Dimension of Pain: Mechanisms and Implications -- Psychophysiology of Emotional Perception and Implications for Understanding Emotion-Memory Relationships -- Imagery and Emotion: Information Networks in the Brain -- Hemispheric Asymmetries in Representation and Control of Emotions: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Damage -- Hemisphere Asymmetries for Autonomic Functions: Evidence from Normal Subjects and Brain-Damaged Patients -- Hierarchical Organization of Emotional Experience and Its Neural Substrates -- Mental Representations the Reticular Activating System and Emotions -- The Role of Autonomic Balance in Experiencing Emotions -- Psychophysiological Analysis of the Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity Related to Attentional Conflicts and Affective States.

Affective Neuroscience and Extended Reticular Thalamic Activating System (ERTAS) Theories of Consciousness -- PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Introduction: Psychological Perspectives -- The Nature and Experience of Emotions -- Antecedents and Functions of Emotion Episodes -- To Think and to Feel: Nonconscious Emotional Activation and Consciousness -- The Experience of Emotion: Situational Influences on the Elicitation and Experience of Emotions -- The Communication of Emotion -- The Perception of Humor -- The Expressive Pattern of Laughter -- Affect Balance and Total Affect Versus Positive and Negative Affect as Fundamental Measures of Emotional Experience: Simple Structure Is Not Always So Simple -- The Contribution of the Face in the Development on Emotion and Self -- Emotions and Learning in a Developing Robot -- The Mental Representation of Romantic Jealousy: A Blended Emotion (and More) -- Alexithymia and the Biocybernetics of Shame -- The Function of Emotional Experience in Decision-Making Problem Solving and Creative Activity -- CONCLUSION -- Some Future Directions in the Study of Emotion and Consciousness -- PARTICIPANTS -- List of Participants.