Concerning the first aspect, I have already shown how emotions such as happiness and cognitive representations such as visiting a friend can be integrated, through the coordinated activity of neural populations in different brain areas. Hence the EMOCON model shows how emotional experiences are not just feelings but feelings about things. Second, the positive and negative character of emotional experience has been explained by the role of particular brain areas such as the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala, well known to be associated with feeling good or bad. The reason that it feels good to be happy is neural, related to activity in particular brain regions associated with both bodily perceptions and cognitive appraisals.