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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... monkey , a case study of the effects of temporal lobe removal , Klüver and Bucy noted : the animal does not exhibit ... monkeys ) . In the wake of Klüver and Bucy's publications , a plethora of re- search was conducted to try to further ...
... monkey , a case study of the effects of temporal lobe removal , Klüver and Bucy noted : the animal does not exhibit ... monkeys ) . In the wake of Klüver and Bucy's publications , a plethora of re- search was conducted to try to further ...
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... monkeys are very willing to play these kinds of games . Normal monkeys do fine , even at relatively long de- lays between the sample and the two test stimuli . Monkeys with hip- pocampal damage also perform reasonably well at short ...
... monkeys are very willing to play these kinds of games . Normal monkeys do fine , even at relatively long de- lays between the sample and the two test stimuli . Monkeys with hip- pocampal damage also perform reasonably well at short ...
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... monkeys have an inherited fear of snakes , so that the first time a monkey saw a snake it would act afraid and protect itself . However , Mineka showed that laboratory - reared monkeys are in fact not afraid on the first exposure to a ...
... monkeys have an inherited fear of snakes , so that the first time a monkey saw a snake it would act afraid and protect itself . However , Mineka showed that laboratory - reared monkeys are in fact not afraid on the first exposure to a ...
Contents
Whats Love Got to Do with It? | 11 |
Souls on Ice | 22 |
Blood Sweat and Tears | 42 |
Copyright | |
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The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Joseph Ledoux Limited preview - 1998 |
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