title: When emotion and cognition do (not) work together: Delusions as emotional and executive dysfunctions.
abstract: In this commentary, I argue that the cognitive-emotional framework put forward by Pessoa (2013) can be successfully applied to psychopathology and, in particular, to the reasoning of delusional subjects. More specifically, I show that the notion of executive competition (Ch. 7) offers a significant contribution to the idea that delusions may involve both executive and emotional dysfunctions.
authors.affiliation: University of Cincinnati,Department of Philosophy,Cincinnati,OH 45221-0374.petrolva@mail.uc.eduhttp://valentinapetrolini.weebly.com.
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Petrolini
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D003702:Delusions; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders; D013850:Thinking