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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... ideas about how emotions come from the brain. It is not meant as an all-encompassing survey of every aspect of how the brain produces emotions. It focuses on those issues that have interested me most, namely, issues about how the brain ...
... ideas about how emotions come from the brain. It is not meant as an all-encompassing survey of every aspect of how the brain produces emotions. It focuses on those issues that have interested me most, namely, issues about how the brain ...
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... idea what the stimuli were. No matter how hard we pressed, the patient could not name the stimulus that had been presented to the right hemisphere. Nevertheless, the left hemisphere was consistently on the money with the emotional ...
... idea what the stimuli were. No matter how hard we pressed, the patient could not name the stimulus that had been presented to the right hemisphere. Nevertheless, the left hemisphere was consistently on the money with the emotional ...
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... idea is wrong—that there is much more than meets the mind's eye in an emotional experience. Feelings of fear, for example, occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the ...
... idea is wrong—that there is much more than meets the mind's eye in an emotional experience. Feelings of fear, for example, occur as part of the overall reaction to danger and are no more or less central to the reac- tion than the ...
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... those conscious states called emotions. Later, well see why this occurred. For now, we want to explore the unconscious nature of cognitive processes. The Cognitive Unconscious Rooted in the idea of mind as. 28 THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN.
... those conscious states called emotions. Later, well see why this occurred. For now, we want to explore the unconscious nature of cognitive processes. The Cognitive Unconscious Rooted in the idea of mind as. 28 THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN.
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The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux. The Cognitive Unconscious Rooted in the idea of mind as an information processing device, cognitive science has been geared toward understanding the functional organization ...
The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux. The Cognitive Unconscious Rooted in the idea of mind as an information processing device, cognitive science has been geared toward understanding the functional organization ...
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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