Emotion And Consciousness

Author : Lisa Feldman Barrett,Paula M. Niedenthal,Piotr Winkielman
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781593854584

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Emotion and Consciousness by Lisa Feldman Barrett,Paula M. Niedenthal,Piotr Winkielman Pdf

Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers. Carefully organized, tightly edited chapters address such compelling questions as how bodily responses contribute to conscious experience, whether "unconscious emotion" exists, how affect is transmitted from one person to another, and how emotional responses are produced in the brain. Bringing a new level of coherence to lines of inquiry that often remain disparate, the book identifies key, cross-cutting ideas and themes and sets forth a cogent agenda for future research.

Author : Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027294616

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Consciousness & Emotion by Ralph D. Ellis,Natika Newton Pdf

The papers in this volume of Consciousness & Emotion Book Series are organized around the theme of "enaction." Enactive emotional processes are not merely the recipients of information or the passive victims of input and learning. The organism first is engaged in an ongoing, complex pattern of self-organizational activity, for the purpose of maintaining a dynamical continuity of pattern across changes of subserving micro-constituents and environmental conditions, making use of multiple shunt mechanisms, feedback loops, and other complex dynamical features. Self-organizational structure is used to distinguish between action and mere reaction. Accordingly, the papers of this volume by leading students of emotion such as Jaak Panksepp, Luc Ciompi, Thomas Natsoulas, Farzaneh Pahlavan, Michela Balconi, Todd Lubart, Louise Sundararajan, Jordan Petersen and others address three main issues: I. Emotional influences on perception and thought II. Agency and choice III. Agency and moral value

Author : Antonio R. Damasio
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0156010755

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The Feeling of what Happens by Antonio R. Damasio Pdf

The publication of this book is an event in the making. All over the world scientists, psychologists, and philosophers are waiting to read Antonio Damasio's new theory of the nature of consciousness and the construction of the self. A renowned and revered scientist and clinician, Damasio has spent decades following amnesiacs down hospital corridors, waiting for comatose patients to awaken, and devising ingenious research using PET scans to piece together the great puzzle of consciousness. In his bestselling Descartes' Error, Damasio revealed the critical importance of emotion in the making of reason. Building on this foundation, he now shows how consciousness is created. Consciousness is the feeling of what happens-our mind noticing the body's reaction to the world and responding to that experience. Without our bodies there can be no consciousness, which is at heart a mechanism for survival that engages body, emotion, and mind in the glorious spiral of human life. A hymn to the possibilities of human existence, a magnificent work of ingenious science, a gorgeously written book, The Feeling of What Happens is already being hailed as a classic.

Author : Antonio Damasio
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781524747565

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Feeling & Knowing by Antonio Damasio Pdf

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness “One thrilling insight after another ... Damasio has succeeded brilliantly in narrowing the gap between body and mind.” —The New York Times Book Review In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life. In the forty-eight brief chapters of Feeling & Knowing, and in writing that remains faithful to our intuitive sense of what feeling and experiencing are about, Damasio helps us understand why being conscious is not the same as sensing, why nervous systems are essential for the development of feelings, and why feeling opens the way to consciousness writ large. He combines the latest discoveries in various sciences with philosophy and discusses his original research, which has transformed our understanding of the brain and human behavior. Here is an indispensable guide to understand­ing how we experience the world within and around us and find our place in the universe.

Author : Alfred Kaszniak
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814493871

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Emotions, Qualia, And Consciousness by Alfred Kaszniak Pdf

The experience of emotion is a ubiquitous component of the stream of consciousness; emotional qualia interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside the conscious awareness. Primary types of emotions are found in animals, while secondary, more complex types are involved in interpersonal relationships. Emotions both influence genetic repair mechanisms of individuals and are responsible for group behavior. Many scholars and scientists believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion.

Author : Norman D. Cook
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027251746

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Tone of Voice and Mind by Norman D. Cook Pdf

Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music perception (how human beings hear and feel harmony). The focus is on the psychological characteristics that distinguish us from other primate species. At a neuronal level, we are just another mammalian species, but the functional specialization of the human cerebral hemispheres has resulted in three outstanding, uniquely-human talents: language, tool-usage and music. To understand how the human brain coordinates those behaviors is to understand who we are. (Series B)

Author : Marvin Minsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781416579304

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The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky Pdf

In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking. By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our minds progress from simple, instinctive kinds of thought to more complex forms, such as consciousness or self-awareness. And he argues that because we tend to see our thinking as fragmented, we fail to appreciate what powerful thinkers we really are. Indeed, says Minsky, if thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that not only can assist with our thinking by thinking as we do but have the potential to be as conscious as we are. Eloquently written, The Emotion Machine is an intriguing look into a future where more powerful artificial intelligences await.

Author : Dr. William James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781625588883

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What is an Emotion? by Dr. William James Pdf

I should say first of all that the only emotions I propose expressly to consider here are those that have a distinct bodily expression. That there are feelings of pleasure and displeasure, of interest and excitement, bound up with mental operations, but having no obvious bodily expression for their consequence, would, I suppose, be held true by most readers. Certain arrangements of sounds, of lines, of colours are agreeable, and others the reverse, without the degree of the feeling being sufficient to quicken the pulse or breathing, or to prompt to movements of either the body or the face. Certain sequences of ideas charm us as much as others tire us. It is a real intellectual delight to get a problem solved, and a real intellectual torment to have to leave it unfinished. The first set of examples, the sounds, lines, and colours, are either bodily sensations, or the images of such. The second set seem to depend on processes in the ideational centres exclusively. Taken together, they appear to prove that there are pleasures and pains inherent in certain forms of nerve-action as such, wherever that action occur. The case of these feelings we will at present leave entirely aside, and confine our attention to the more complicated cases in which a wave of bodily disturbance of some kind accompanies the perception of the interesting sights or sounds, or the passage of the exciting train of ideas. Surprise, curiosity, rapture, fear, anger, lust, greed, and the like, become then the names of the mental states with which the person is possessed. The bodily disturbances are said to be the "manifestation" of these several emotions, their "expression" or "natural language;" and these emotions themselves, being so strongly characterized both from within and without, may be called the standard emotions. --William James

Author : George Mandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Psychology
ISBN : MINN:31951000687809A

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Mind and Emotion by George Mandler Pdf

Author : Josefa Toribio,Andy Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136794087

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Consciousness and Emotion in Cognitive Science by Josefa Toribio,Andy Clark Pdf

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780805098891

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Beyond Words by Carl Safina Pdf

I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so-close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that for a scientist was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina's landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals. In Beyond Words, readers travel to Amboseli National Park in the threatened landscape of Kenya and witness struggling elephant families work out how to survive poaching and drought, then to Yellowstone National Park to observe wolves sort out the aftermath of one pack's personal tragedy, and finally plunge into the astonishingly peaceful society of killer whales living in the crystalline waters of the Pacific Northwest. Beyond Words brings forth powerful and illuminating insight into the unique personalities of animals through extraordinary stories of animal joy, grief, jealousy, anger, and love. The similarity between human and nonhuman consciousness, self-awareness, and empathy calls us to re-evaluate how we interact with animals. Wise, passionate, and eye-opening at every turn, Beyond Words is ultimately a graceful examination of humanity's place in the world.

Author : Jessica L. Tracy,Richard W. Robins,June Price Tangney
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462515189

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The Self-Conscious Emotions by Jessica L. Tracy,Richard W. Robins,June Price Tangney Pdf

Timely and authoritative, this volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on the self-conscious emotions and their role in psychological and social functioning. Leading investigators approach the subject from multiple levels of analysis, ranging from basic brain mechanisms to complex social processes. Chapters present compelling advances in research on the most fundamental self-conscious emotions: embarrassment, guilt, humiliation, pride, and shame. Addressed are neural and evolutionary mechanisms, developmental processes, cultural differences and similarities, and influences on a wide array of social behaviors and personality processes. A unique chapter on assessment describes and evaluates the full range of available measures.

Author : Fred Carlisle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 173467010X

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The Emotion Solution: Change Your Consciousness, Change Everything by Fred Carlisle Pdf

Author : Ad Foolen,Ulrike M. Lüdtke,Timothy P. Racine,Jordan Zlatev
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274915

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Moving Ourselves, Moving Others by Ad Foolen,Ulrike M. Lüdtke,Timothy P. Racine,Jordan Zlatev Pdf

The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due attention, but the key role of (e)motion in this context has remained something of a blind spot. The present book rectifies this gap by gathering contributions from leading philosophers, psychologists and linguists working in the area. Framed by an introducing prologue and a summarizing epilogue (written by Colwyn Trevarthen, who brought the phenomenological notion of intersubjectivity to a wider audience some 30 years ago) the volume elaborates a dynamical, active view of emotion, along with an affect-laden view of motion – and explores their significance for consciousness, intersubjectivity, and language. As such, it contributes to the emerging interdisciplinary field of mind science, transcending hitherto dominant computationalist and cognitivist approaches. Now Open Access as part of the Knowledge Unlatched 2017 Backlist Collection.

Author : Giovanna Colombetti,Evan Thompson
Publisher : Journal of Consciousness Studi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076002730799

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Emotion Experience by Giovanna Colombetti,Evan Thompson Pdf

Emotion experience has failed to date to gain a central place in the study of consciousness. This special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies presents the most recent views on the matter, with discussions of several aspects of emotion experience. Contributors from different disciplines address links between feelings, brain, body and world. What happens in the brain and in the body when we have feelings? How do feelings relate to our understanding of the world? The contributors also analyse emotion experience per se -- the character of moods, the role of emotion experience in demarcating the class of emotion, the alleged positive and negative character of affect, its embodied feel and its relation to action.