The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional LifeWhat happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic experiences in early childhood influence adult behavior, even though we have no conscious memory of them? In The Emotional Brain, Joseph LeDoux investigates the origins of human emotions and explains that many exist as part of complex neural systems that evolved to enable us to survive. One of the principal researchers profiled in Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, LeDoux is a leading authority in the field of neural science. In this provocative book, he explores the brain mechanisms underlying our emotions -- mechanisms that are only now being revealed. |
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... example, if the left hand, which sends touch information to the right hemisphere, reaches into a bag of objects, it is able to sort through them and pull out the one that matches the picture seen by the right hemisphere. The right ...
... example, if the left hand, which sends touch information to the right hemisphere, reaches into a bag of objects, it is able to sort through them and pull out the one that matches the picture seen by the right hemisphere. The right ...
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... example, when the right hemisphere saw the word "mom," the left hemisphere rated it as "good," and when the right side saw the word "devil," the left rated it as "bad." The left hemisphere had no idea what the stimuli were. No matter ...
... example, when the right hemisphere saw the word "mom," the left hemisphere rated it as "good," and when the right side saw the word "devil," the left rated it as "bad." The left hemisphere had no idea what the stimuli were. No matter ...
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... example, does not have a system dedicated to perception. The word "perception" describes in a gen- eral way what goes on in a number of specific neural systems—we see, hear, and smell the world with our visual, au- ditory, and olfactory ...
... example, does not have a system dedicated to perception. The word "perception" describes in a gen- eral way what goes on in a number of specific neural systems—we see, hear, and smell the world with our visual, au- ditory, and olfactory ...
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... example, occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the behavioral and physiological responses that also occur, such as trembling, running away, sweating, and heart ...
... example, occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the behavioral and physiological responses that also occur, such as trembling, running away, sweating, and heart ...
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... example, said that passions and desires and fears make it impossible for us to think.6 For him, emotions were like wild horses that have to be reined in by the intellect, which he thought of as a charioteer. Christian theology has long ...
... example, said that passions and desires and fears make it impossible for us to think.6 For him, emotions were like wild horses that have to be reined in by the intellect, which he thought of as a charioteer. Christian theology has long ...
Contents
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THE HOLY GRAIL | 73 |
THE WAY WE WERE | 104 |
A FEW DEGREES OF SEPARATION | 138 |
REMEMBRANCE OF EMOTIONS PAST | 179 |
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE | 225 |
ONCE MORE WITH FEELINGS | 267 |
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux Limited preview - 1998 |
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