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Complete references for all sources cited in the research documentation. Organized by category with links where available.

Philosophy

Ancient Texts

  • Aristotle. De Anima (On the Soul). Trans. D.W. Hamlyn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
  • Aristotle. De Memoria et Reminiscentia (On Memory and Recollection). In Parva Naturalia. Trans. J.I. Beare. Available: https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/memory.html
  • Plato. Meno. In Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  • Plato. Phaedo. In Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  • Plato. Phaedrus. In Complete Works. Indianapolis: Hackett.
  • Diogenes Laertius (source for the Stoics). Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book VII (Stoics).
  • Epictetus. Enchiridion. Trans. W.A. Oldfather. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928.

Early Modern Period

  • Descartes, R. (1649). Les Passions de l'âme. Paris.
  • Spinoza, B. (1677). Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata. Trans. E. Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
  • Particularly: Part III (De Origine et Natura Affectuum), Propositions 18, 11–15.
  • Hume, D. (1739–40). A Treatise of Human Nature. Ed. L.A. Selby-Bigge. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Phenomenology

  • Husserl, E. (1893–1917/1928). Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewusstseins. Ed. M. Heidegger. Halle: Niemeyer. Trans.: On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.
  • Husserl, E. (1900–01). Logische Untersuchungen. Trans.: Logical Investigations. London: Routledge, 2001.
  • Heidegger, M. (1927). Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Trans.: Being and Time. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
  • Particularly: §29–34 (Die Befindlichkeit, Die Angst, Die Stimmung).
  • Heidegger, M. (1929–30). Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Frankfurt: Klostermann. Trans.: Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • Merleau-Ponty, M. (1945). Phénoménologie de la perception. Paris: Gallimard. Trans.: Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge, 2002.

Contemporary Philosophy

  • Clark, A. & Chalmers, D. (1998). "The Extended Mind." Analysis, 58(1), 7–19. Available: https://www.alice.id.tue.nl/references/clark-chalmers-1998.pdf
  • Clark, A. (2008). Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Colombetti, G. (2014). The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind. Cambridge: MIT Press. Available: https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/2211/
  • Varela, F., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E. (1991). The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Thompson, E. (2007). Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Turkle, S. (ed.) (2007). Evocative Objects: Things We Think With. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Amygdala, Fear, and Memory

  • LeDoux, J.E. (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • LeDoux, J.E. (2000). "Emotion circuits in the brain." Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 155–184. Available: https://stanford.edu/~knutson/ans/ledoux00.pdf
  • McGaugh, J.L. (2004). "The amygdala modulates the consolidation of memories of emotionally arousing experiences." Annual Review of Neuroscience, 27, 1–28. PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15217324/
  • McGaugh, J.L. (2013). "Making lasting memories: Remembering the significant." PNAS, 110(S2), 10402–10407. Available: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1301209110
  • Richter-Levin, G. (2004). "The Amygdala, the Hippocampus, and Emotional Modulation of Memory." The Neuroscientist, 10(1), 31–39. Available: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073858403259955
  • Kensinger, E.A. & Corkin, S. (2004). "Two routes to emotional memory: Distinct neural processes for valence and arousal." PNAS, 101(9), 3310–3315.

Somatic Marker Hypothesis

  • Damasio, A.R. (1994). Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. New York: Putnam.
  • Damasio, A.R. (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. New York: Harcourt.
  • Damasio, A.R. (1996). "The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 351, 1413–1420.
  • Bechara, A., Damasio, H. & Damasio, A.R. (2005). "The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision." Games and Economic Behavior, 52(2), 336–372.

Affective Neuroscience

  • Panksepp, J. (1998). Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Davis, K.L. & Montag, C. (2019). "Selected Principles of Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience." Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12, 1025. PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6344464/

Flashbulb Memory and Consolidation

  • Brown, R. & Kulik, J. (1977). "Flashbulb memories." Cognition, 5(1), 73–99.
  • Talarico, J.M. & Rubin, D.C. (2003). "Confidence, not consistency, characterizes flashbulb memories." Psychological Science, 14(5), 455–461.

Reconsolidation

  • Nader, K., Schafe, G.E. & LeDoux, J.E. (2000). "Fear memories require protein synthesis in the amygdala for reconsolidation after retrieval." Nature, 406, 722–726.
  • Schiller, D. et al. (2010). "Preventing the return of fear in humans using reconsolidation update mechanisms." Nature, 463, 49–53.
  • Lee, J.L.C., Nader, K. & Schiller, D. (2017). "An update on memory reconsolidation updating." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(7), 531–545. PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5605913/

Cognitive Appraisal

  • Lazarus, R.S. (1991). Emotion and Adaptation. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Scherer, K.R. (2009). "The dynamic architecture of emotion: Evidence for the component process model." Cognition and Emotion, 23(7), 1307–1351.
  • Arnold, M.B. (1960). Emotion and Personality (2 vols). New York: Columbia University Press.

Predictive Learning and Arousal

  • Pearce, J.M. & Hall, G. (1980). "A model for Pavlovian learning: Variations in the effectiveness of conditioned but not of unconditioned stimuli." Psychological Review, 87(6), 532–552. The Pearce-Hall predictor-error theory underlies the APE-gated reconsolidation mechanism: only events with high prediction error open the reconsolidation window.
  • Yerkes, R.M. & Dodson, J.D. (1908). "The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit-formation." Journal of Comparative Neurology and Psychology, 18(5), 459–482. The Yerkes-Dodson curve informs the non-linear relationship between arousal and consolidation strength: peak around moderate arousal, degradation at extremes.

Constructed Emotion

  • Barrett, L.F. (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
  • Barrett, L.F. (2017). "The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(1), 1–23. Available: https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/12/1/1/2823712

Spreading Activation and Associative Learning

  • Collins, A.M. & Loftus, E.F. (1975). "A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing." Psychological Review, 82(6), 407–428.
  • Hebb, D.O. (1949). The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory. New York: Wiley.

Mood-Congruent Memory and State-Dependent Learning

  • Bower, G.H. (1981). "Mood and memory." American Psychologist, 36(2), 129–148.
  • Mayer, J.D. et al. (1995). "Mood-Congruent Memory and Natural Mood." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21(7), 736–746.
  • Eich, E. & Metcalfe, J. (1989). "Mood dependent memory for internal versus external events." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 443–455.

Reward Prediction Error

  • Schultz, W., Dayan, P. & Montague, P.R. (1997). "A neural substrate of prediction and reward." Science, 275, 1593–1599.
  • Niv, Y. (2009). "Reinforcement learning in the brain." Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 53(3), 139–154.
  • Nature Communications (2025). "Separable neural signals for reward and emotion prediction errors." Available: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63135-5

Computational Models

  • Russell, J.A. (1980). "A circumplex model of affect." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39(6), 1161–1178.
  • Mehrabian, A. & Russell, J.A. (1974). An Approach to Environmental Psychology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Plutchik, R. (1980). Emotion: A Psychoevolutionary Synthesis. New York: Harper & Row.
  • Ortony, A., Clore, G.L. & Collins, A. (1988). The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Anderson, J.R. (1983). The Architecture of Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [ACT-R power-law decay: strength(t) = B · t^(-d)]
  • Anderson, J.R. et al. (2004). "An integrated theory of the mind." Psychological Review, 111(4), 1036–1060.
  • Marinier, R.P., Laird, J.E. & Lewis, R.L. (2009). "A computational unification of cognitive behavior and emotion." Cognitive Systems Research, 10(1), 48–69. Available: https://public.websites.umich.edu/~rickl/pubs/marinier-laird-lewis-2008-cogsys.pdf
  • Sun, R. (2016). Anatomy of the Mind: Exploring Psychological Mechanisms and Processes with the CLARION Cognitive Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

LLM Memory Systems (2023–2026)

  • Packer, C. et al. (2023). "MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems." arXiv:2310.08560. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08560
  • Mem0 paper (2025). arXiv:2504.19413. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19413
  • Park, J.S. et al. (2023). "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior." arXiv:2304.03442. https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442
  • OpenMemory / Cavira (2025). https://github.com/CaviraOSS/OpenMemory
  • Memory Bear AI (2025). arXiv:2512.20651. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20651
  • Memory Bear AI Technical Report (2026). arXiv:2603.22306. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22306
  • Xu, W. et al. (2025). "A-MEM: Agentic Memory for LLM Agents." NeurIPS 2025. arXiv:2502.12110. https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12110
  • MemOS (2025). https://github.com/MemTensor/MemOS
  • Memory in the Age of AI Agents (2025). arXiv:2512.13564. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13564
  • Memory in the LLM Era (2026). arXiv:2604.01707. https://arxiv.org/html/2604.01707
  • Choosing How to Remember (2025). arXiv:2602.14038. https://arxiv.org/html/2602.14038

Affective Computing for LLMs (2023–2026)

  • Huang et al. (2024). "Emotional RAG: Enhancing Role-Playing Agents through Emotional Retrieval." arXiv:2410.23041. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23041
  • Liu, Z. et al. (2024). "EmoLLMs: A Series of Emotional Large Language Models and an Improved Dataset with Refined Annotation Methodology." arXiv:2401.08508. https://huggingface.co/papers/2401.08508
  • Li, C. et al. (2023). "EmotionPrompt: Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Emotional Stimulus." arXiv:2307.11760. https://huggingface.co/papers/2307.11760
  • Wang et al. (2024). "NegativePrompt: Leveraging Psychology for Large Language Models Enhancement via Negative Emotional Stimulus." arXiv:2405.02814. https://huggingface.co/papers/2405.02814
  • Zhang & Zhong (2025). "Decoding Emotion in the Deep: Latent Emotional Representations in LLMs." arXiv:2510.04064. https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.04064
  • Fang et al. (2025). "The Personalization Trap: Memory Biases in LLM Emotional Reasoning." arXiv:2510.09905. https://huggingface.co/papers/2510.09905
  • MemEmo (2026). "A Benchmark for Evaluating Emotional Memory in LLM Agents." arXiv:2602.23944. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23944
  • Dynamic Affective Memory Management (2025). arXiv:2510.27418. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.27418
  • Chain-of-Emotion Architecture (2024). arXiv:2309.05076. PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11086867/

Reviews and Surveys

  • Picard, R.W. (1997). Affective Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Affective Computing: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Trends (2024). Intelligent Computing. https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/icomputing.0076
  • A Comprehensive Review of Multimodal Emotion Recognition (2025). PMC. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12292624/
  • Affective Computing in the LLM Era (2024). Survey. arXiv:2408.04638. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04638
  • Emotionally adaptive support for mental health (2025). Frontiers in Digital Health. PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12568696/
  • Emotion detection: Cognitive-Computational Synthesis Framework (2026). Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. Springer: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13415-026-01418-0

Online Resources

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Emotion: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotion/
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Spinoza's Psychological Theory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-psychological/
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Edmund Husserl: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl/
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Maurice Merleau-Ponty: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/merleau-ponty/
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Embodied Cognition: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/
  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Stoic Philosophy of Mind: https://iep.utm.edu/stoicmind/
  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Enactivism: https://iep.utm.edu/enactivism/
  • Wikipedia — Somatic Marker Hypothesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_marker_hypothesis
  • Wikipedia — Appraisal Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appraisal_theory
  • Wikipedia — Extended Mind Thesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_mind_thesis
  • Agent Memory Paper List (curated): https://github.com/Shichun-Liu/Agent-Memory-Paper-List
  • Awesome Memory for Agents (Tsinghua): https://github.com/TsinghuaC3I/Awesome-Memory-for-Agents