Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section I Theoretical Models of Emotion
- Section II Measuring Emotional Processes
- Section III Emotion Perception and Elicitation
- Chapter 9 The Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion
- Chapter 10 Body of Knowledge
- Chapter 11 A Lifespan Perspective of Emotion in Voice Perception
- Chapter 12 Pain in the Brain
- Chapter 13 Olfaction and Emotion
- Chapter 14 Music, Emotion, and Reward
- Chapter 15 Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain
- Section IV Emotional Learning and Memory
- Section V Cognition–Emotion Interactions
- Section VI Social Emotions
- Section VII Individual Differences
- Index
- References
Chapter 15 - Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain
from Section III - Emotion Perception and Elicitation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
- Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section I Theoretical Models of Emotion
- Section II Measuring Emotional Processes
- Section III Emotion Perception and Elicitation
- Chapter 9 The Perception of Facial Expressions of Emotion
- Chapter 10 Body of Knowledge
- Chapter 11 A Lifespan Perspective of Emotion in Voice Perception
- Chapter 12 Pain in the Brain
- Chapter 13 Olfaction and Emotion
- Chapter 14 Music, Emotion, and Reward
- Chapter 15 Language and Emotion Concepts in the Predictive Brain
- Section IV Emotional Learning and Memory
- Section V Cognition–Emotion Interactions
- Section VI Social Emotions
- Section VII Individual Differences
- Index
- References
Summary
There is growing evidence that language plays an important role in emotion because it helps people acquire emotion concept knowledge. In this chapter, we argue that language plays a mechanistic role in emotion because emotion concept knowledge, once acquired, is used by the brain to predictively and adaptively regulate a person’s subjective emotional experiences and behaviors. Building on predictive processing models of brain function, we argue that the emotion concepts learned via language during early development “seed” the brain’s emotional predictions throughout the lifespan. We review constructionist theories of emotion and their support in behavioral, physiological, neuroimaging, and lesion data. We then situate these constructionist predictions within recent neuroscience research to speculate on the neural mechanisms by which emotion concepts “seed” emotional experiences.
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