They are different phenomena that cannot be separated!

Cognitive science deals with cognition from two sides: psychological, i.e. the way our mental life is driven by abstract concepts (as opposed to operational conditioning), -- and computational, i.e. the way brains arrive and mental phenomena through plain algebraic / Bayesian computing.  Your computational model of emotion sits squarely in the second department, so you are good with a cognitive science journal.  I support Dr Parsapoor above: bottom-up influence of emotion on cognition is called decision making.

Thank you all for your responses. 

Alfredo Junior, your opinion resonates with mine.

Renzo Bianchi, the journals you have mentioned are good suggestions. The papers are also useful.

Mahboobeh Parsapoor, I will look more closely into BELIM and the somatic marker theory.

Alex Chadyuk, your reasoning makes sense. You have highlighted one of the key points of cognition - which is information processing.

Agree that D'Amasio has useful perspectives on the development and integration of perception (sense data), emotion (meso-limbic dopamine system, e.g.) and cognition. Le Doux comes to mind as well as doing a nice job of organizing 'mental' management of experience. This intrinsically in agreement with Alfredo. If cognition is differentiated from affect, then the system implemented to differentiate these systems is merely an interpretation formalized in a language in our brains. The language references are to  perceptions of body parts and various ideas regarding operations of the organism including the brain that, if separated in fact result in the death of the organism. The neo-cortex view that makes the most sense to me is: it is importantly a construct driven by experiences. That is, synaptic growth is experience potentiated. Sensory information relevant to the interests of the organism, evoking proportional (or not) reactions which drive the construct of emotion(s). So sensory data (embodied perception) infused with affect, that require more than agent driven bodily responses deliverable immediately from reptilian brain activity potentiates the development of neural circuitry for higher level executive function in both an evolutionary sense as well as with reference to the synaptic development of the already existing individual with a neo-cortex. Step wise again: A sort of sensory experience plus the interests of the organism equals the construction of affect. Affect houses data infused with energy manufactured by the organism. When affect reaches certain levels of intensity such that the energy cannot be discharged immediately with a response clearly proportionate to achieving the interests of the organism, well, the energy needs to go somewhere, the data needs a response. Hence the construction of cognition. Emotion, like perception, delivers data in a compelling (attention getting) way to the cognitive housing we call the neo-cortex for data mining and management. Implicit cognition and explicit cognition represent various levels of intensity and temporal redundancy. All of this language is an artifact of our own construction having no reality apart from our own beliefs and various electrical transmissions in the CNS, at times resulting in the creation of expression; i.e., behavior.