Preface ; INTRODUCTORY LECTURE ; Emotion and Consciousness: Current Research and Controversies ; PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ; Introduction: Philosophical Perspectives ; Emotion and the Problem of Psychological Categories ; The Nature of Typical Emotions
Determinants of Emotional Intensity Emotional Qualia ; Karl Jaspers' Phenomenological Approach to Emotion in his General Psychopathology ; Emotions Associated to Cognitive Revision as a Basis for Values ; Emotion and Intersubjective Perception: A Speculative Account
BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Introduction: Biological Perspectives ; Evolutionary Perspectives on Emotion ; Towards a Genetics of Joy: Breeding Rats for ""Laughter"" ; The Neuroscience of Fear: Perspectives from Animal Research ; Amygdala and Processing of Information with Emotional Content
Neuro-Affective Processes and the Brain Substrates of Emotion: Emerging Perspectives and Dilemmas The Affective Dimension of Pain: Mechanisms and Implications ; Psychophysiology of Emotional Perception and Implications for Understanding Emotion-Memory Relationships
Imagery and Emotion: Information Networks in the Brain Hemispheric Asymmetries in Representation and Control of Emotions: Evidence from Unilateral Brain Damage ; Hemisphere Asymmetries for Autonomic Functions: Evidence from Normal Subjects and Brain-Damaged Patients
Summary
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 scientif
