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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... patients at their homes in Vermont and New Hampshire.6 The earlier studies that Gazzaniga had done showed that when the brain is split, the two sides can no longer communicate with each other. And because language functions of the brain ...
... patients at their homes in Vermont and New Hampshire.6 The earlier studies that Gazzaniga had done showed that when the brain is split, the two sides can no longer communicate with each other. And because language functions of the brain ...
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... patient known as P.S.8 He was special because unlike most previous patients of this type, he was able to read words in both hemispheres, although, as with the others, he could only speak through his left hemisphere. So when emotional ...
... patient known as P.S.8 He was special because unlike most previous patients of this type, he was able to read words in both hemispheres, although, as with the others, he could only speak through his left hemisphere. So when emotional ...
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... patients that led us to a similar conclusion.25 It was well- known from earlier work by Gazzaniga and others that information presented exclusively to one hemisphere of a split-brain patient is unavailable to the other.26 We capitalized ...
... patients that led us to a similar conclusion.25 It was well- known from earlier work by Gazzaniga and others that information presented exclusively to one hemisphere of a split-brain patient is unavailable to the other.26 We capitalized ...
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... patient was attributing explanations to situations as if he had introspective insight into the cause of the behavior when in fact he did not. We concluded people normally do all sorts of things for reasons they are not consciously aware ...
... patient was attributing explanations to situations as if he had introspective insight into the cause of the behavior when in fact he did not. We concluded people normally do all sorts of things for reasons they are not consciously aware ...
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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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