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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... 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. However, if you give the right hemisphere the opportunity to respond without ...
... 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. However, if you give the right hemisphere the opportunity to respond without ...
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... stimuli with emotional connotations to the two half-brains of a special patient known as P.S.8 He was special ... stimuli were presented to the left hemisphere, P.S. could tell us what the stimulus was and how he felt about it— whether ...
... stimuli with emotional connotations to the two half-brains of a special patient known as P.S.8 He was special ... stimuli were presented to the left hemisphere, P.S. could tell us what the stimulus was and how he felt about it— whether ...
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... stimuli, a goal that I have since pursued. After completing my graduate work, I decided that the techniques available for studying the human brain were too limited and that I would never be able to understand the neural basis of emotion ...
... stimuli, a goal that I have since pursued. After completing my graduate work, I decided that the techniques available for studying the human brain were too limited and that I would never be able to understand the neural basis of emotion ...
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... stimuli that automatically trigger emotions will be present. We have little direct control over our emotional reactions. Anyone who has tried to fake an emotion, or who has been the recipient of a faked one, knows all too well the ...
... stimuli that automatically trigger emotions will be present. We have little direct control over our emotional reactions. Anyone who has tried to fake an emotion, or who has been the recipient of a faked one, knows all too well the ...
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... stimuli by our sensory systems, to remembrance of past events, to speaking grammatically, to imagining things that are not present, to decision making, and beyond. Like Freud before them, cognitive scientists reject the view handed down ...
... stimuli by our sensory systems, to remembrance of past events, to speaking grammatically, to imagining things that are not present, to decision making, and beyond. Like Freud before them, cognitive scientists reject the view handed down ...
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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