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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... persons and scientists alike. I'm extremely grateful to my family for tolerating me while I struggled to write this book. I owe much to my wife, Nancy Princen- thal, for her tireless reading of endless drafts of my book proposal, and ...
... persons and scientists alike. I'm extremely grateful to my family for tolerating me while I struggled to write this book. I owe much to my wife, Nancy Princen- thal, for her tireless reading of endless drafts of my book proposal, and ...
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... person is only able to talk about things that the left hemisphere knows about. If stimuli are presented in such a way that only the right hemisphere sees them, the split-brain person is not able to verbally describe what the stimulus is ...
... person is only able to talk about things that the left hemisphere knows about. If stimuli are presented in such a way that only the right hemisphere sees them, the split-brain person is not able to verbally describe what the stimulus is ...
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... person can both add 2 + 5 and come up with 7. The fact that both achieve the same answer cannot be ex- plained by the use of similar hardware—brains are made of biological stuff and computers of electronic parts. The similar outcome ...
... person can both add 2 + 5 and come up with 7. The fact that both achieve the same answer cannot be ex- plained by the use of similar hardware—brains are made of biological stuff and computers of electronic parts. The similar outcome ...
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... person and a computer add 2 to 5 and come up with 7, the similar outcome cannot he hased on similar physical makeup, hut instead must he due to afunctional equivalence of the processes involved. As a result, it is possible to study ...
... person and a computer add 2 to 5 and come up with 7, the similar outcome cannot he hased on similar physical makeup, hut instead must he due to afunctional equivalence of the processes involved. As a result, it is possible to study ...
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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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