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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... processing had taken place outside of its realm of awareness (which is to say, had taken place unconsciously). Split-brain surgery seemed to be revealing a fundamental psychological dichotomy—between thinking and feeling, between ...
... processing had taken place outside of its realm of awareness (which is to say, had taken place unconsciously). Split-brain surgery seemed to be revealing a fundamental psychological dichotomy—between thinking and feeling, between ...
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... processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents the conscious content (fear or redness) but the systems that provide the inputs to the system of ...
... processing systems. What differs between the state of being afraid and the state of perceiving red is not the system that represents the conscious content (fear or redness) but the systems that provide the inputs to the system of ...
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... processing entering awareness and occupying our conscious minds, and only in some instances. The next stop along the way takes us into the brain, in search of the system that gives rise to our emotions (Chapter 4). Well see that there ...
... processing entering awareness and occupying our conscious minds, and only in some instances. The next stop along the way takes us into the brain, in search of the system that gives rise to our emotions (Chapter 4). Well see that there ...
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... artificial intelligence (AI), which seeks to model the human mind using computer simulations, was born. Pretty soon, anyone who bought into the notion. 26 THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN. K. More processing! Still more processing SfnnpSu°tY-*^ ...
... artificial intelligence (AI), which seeks to model the human mind using computer simulations, was born. Pretty soon, anyone who bought into the notion. 26 THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN. K. More processing! Still more processing SfnnpSu°tY-*^ ...
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... processing device came to be known as a cognitive scientist. Cognitive science caused a revolution in psychology, dethroning the behaviorists and bringing the mind back home. But the impact of cognitive science reached far beyond ...
... processing device came to be known as a cognitive scientist. Cognitive science caused a revolution in psychology, dethroning the behaviorists and bringing the mind back home. But the impact of cognitive science reached far beyond ...
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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