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Emotion Explained

08/11/2013 08:17
Edmund Rolls - University of Oxford, Dept. of Experimental Psychology At the beginning of his book, Rolls asks why it is that emotional states ‘feel like something’, and it is admitted that this is part of the larger problem of consciousness. His book looks at the interaction of emotions and...

The emotional brain

08/11/2013 08:15
Based on work by Edmund Rolls, Leonard Kosiol, Deborah Budding, Jan Lauwereyns, David Zald & Scott Rauch This synthesis of a series of books by researchers into emotion  attempts to summarise how emotion functions in the brain. This is an area that was near to being taboo for much of the...

Attention versus consciousness

08/11/2013 08:14
Valerie Hardcastle In: Neural Basis of Consciousness – John Benjamins (2003) The author suggests that definite images in the mind are surrounded by a peripheral consciousness that gives value and significance to the definite image. She argues that attention is something different from...

Animal consciousness

08/11/2013 08:13
The quest for animal consciousness Andrea Nani, Clare Eddy & Andrea Cavanna, Universities of Turin, Birmingham and UCL Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14 The most interesting aspect of this paper is the reference to studies demonstrating that only sensory information that is reported as...

Quantum biology lecture

08/11/2013 08:12
Jim Al-Khalili, Surrey University Lecture at the Royal Institution, 2013 INTRODUCTION:  In many ways this was an excellent lecture in providing a clear popularisation of the emerging area of quantum biology, something which is still tending to be noised out as being pseudoscience by the less...

Descartes Error

08/11/2013 08:10
Antonio Damasio Although Damasio remains within the conventional paradigm, this classic book, published in 1994, kicks away some of the props of the mechanistic ‘brain as classical computer’ orthodoxy, by arguing for the involvement of the emotions and the body in neural processing. In this...

Decision making, determinism and consciousness

08/11/2013 08:08
Edmund Rolls New Horizons in the Neuroscience of Consciousness – Eds – Elaine Perry, Daniel Collerton, Fiona Le Beau & Heather Ashton In the introduction to his chapter Rolls emphasises that decision making in the brain involves a mix of the reasoning system and the reward system, the latter to...

NDE and the single-neuron

08/11/2013 08:07
Pim van Lommel, Dept. of Cardiology, Rijnstate Hospital, Netherlands Journal of Consciousness Studies, 20, No. 1-2, (2013), pp. 7-48 The cardiologist, Pim van Lommel has been a poineer in studying near-death-experience (NDE) since the middle part of the last century. I am not going to review the...

Neurophysics of consciousness

08/11/2013 08:04
E.Roy John, New York University School of Medicine Brain Research Reviews, 39, (2002) pp. 1-28 E. Roy John considers that there is a requirement for a mechanism to synchronise sensory elements in different modalities. He proposes that the phase-locked oscillatory 30-80 Hz gamma synchrony within the...

Perception, action, consciousness

08/11/2013 08:03
N. Gangopadhyay, M. Madary, & F. Spicer Oxford University Press (2010) This book sets out to discuss a debate within the cognitive sciences as to the relationship of perception and action. One view is that this involves on a dual visual system driving the mainly separate functioning of...
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