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The Emotional Brain Revisited

The Emotional Brain Revisited

James A. Russell, Bartosz Brożek, Bram Heerebout, Regina M. Sullivan, Piotr Urbańczyk, Łukasz Kurek, Joseph LeDoux, Wojciech Załuski, Nico H. Frijda, Paul Whalen, Margo S. Landers, Jacek Dębiec, Mateusz Hohol, Dominika Dudek, Hans Phaf

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A collection of essays which tackles various issues at play in the current neuroscientific, psychological and philosophical research on emotions. The authors discuss such topics as the role of amygdala in the emergence of emotions, the place of the affect within the psychological construction of the agent, insights from the research on emotions in animals or the relation between emotions, rationality, morality, and law. Furthermore, various conceptual controversies underlying the empirical studies on emotions are considered.
 Table of Contents
Jacek Dębiec, Michael Heller, Bartosz Brożek, Joseph LeDoux
Introduction....................................................................................      7
 
 
Part I

Joseph LeDoux
Rethinking the Emotional Brain .......................................................... 13
 
Regina M. Sullivan, Margo S. Landers
Development of the Emotional Brain and Infant Attachment:
Lessons from an Animal Model...........................................................   85
 
M. Justin Kim, Rebecca A. Loucks, Amy L. Palmer, Annemarie C. Brown,
Kimberly M. Solomon, Ashley N. Marchante, Paul J. Whalen
The Structural and Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala:
From Normal Emotion to Pathological Anxiety.................................... 113
 
Jacek Dębiec
The Matter of Emotions: Toward the Brain-Based Theory of Emotions.... 145
 
Bram T. Heerebout, R. Hans Phaf
Good Vibrations Switch Attention. An Affective Function for Network
Oscillations in Evolutionary Simulations.............................................. 163
Part II
 
Nico H. Frijda
Impulsive Action and Impulse Control................................................. 199
 
James A. Russell
Emotion, Core Affect, and Psychological Construction ......................... 223
Part III
 
Łukasz Kurek
Some Remarks on the Relevance of the Concept of Emotion.................. 259
 
Mateusz Hohol, Piotr Urbańczyk
Some Remarks on Embodied-Embedded Social Cognition..................... 279
 
Wojciech Załuski
Emotions and Rationality................................................................... 303
 
Bartosz Brożek
Morality, Law and Emotions............................................................... 319
 
Dominika Dudek
Madness or Brain Disorders. From Dualism towards Integration............. 349
  • Title: The Emotional Brain Revisited
  • Author: Bartosz Brożek, Łukasz Kurek, Wojciech Załuski, Mateusz Hohol, Joseph LeDoux, Jacek Dębiec, Bram Heerebout, Hans Phaf, Dominika Dudek, Piotr Urbańczyk, Regina M. Sullivan, Margo S. Landers, Paul Whalen, Nico H. Frijda, James A. Russell
  • ISBN: 978-83-7886-072-3, 9788378860723
  • Date of issue: 2014-09-05
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_5112
  • Publisher: Copernicus Center Press