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Author International School of Biocybernetics (1998 : Casamicciola Terme, Italy)

Title Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness : Proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics, Casamicciola, Napoli, Italy, 19-24 October 1998 / edited by Alfred Kaszniak
Published Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 554 pages) : illustrations
Series Series on biophysics and biocybernetics ; vol. 10. Biocybernetics
Series on biophysics and biocybernetics ; vol. 10.
Series on biophysics and biocybernetics. Biocybernetics.
Contents Introductory lecture. Emotion and consciousness: Current research and controversies / A.W. Kaszniak -- Philosophical perspectives. Introduction: Philosophical perspectives / A.W. Kaszniak -- Emotion and the problem of psychological categories / P.E. Griffiths -- The nature of typical emotions / A. Ben-Ze'ev -- Determinants of emotional intensity / A. Ben-Ze'ev -- Emotional qualia / C. Calabi -- Karl Jaspers' phenomenological approach to emotion in his general psychopathology / A.L. Gluck -- Emotions associated to cognitive revision as a basis for values / P. Livet -- Emotion and intersubjective perception: A speculative account / S. Gallagher -- Biological perspectives. Introduction: Biological perspectives / A.W. Kaszniak -- Evolutionary perspectives on emotion / P.E. Griffiths -- Towards a genetics of joy: Breeding rats for "laughter" / J. Panksepp, J. Burgdorf and N. Gordon -- The neuroscience of fear: Perspectives from animal research / J. LeDoux -- Amygdala and processing of information with emotional content / P. Caldbrese [and others] -- Neuro-affective processes and the brain substrates of emotion: Emerging perspectives and dilemmas / J. Panksepp -- The affective dimension of pain: Mechanisms and implications / C.R. Chapman and Y. Nakamura -- Psychophysiology of emotional perception and implications for understanding emotion-memory relationships / M. Bradley -- Imagery and emotion: Information networks in the brain / P.J. Lang -- Hemispheric asymmetries in representation and control of emotions: Evidence from unilateral brain damage / G. Gainotti -- Hemisphere asymmetries for autonomic functions: Evidence from normal subjects and brain-damaged patients / G. Gianotti -- Hierarchical organization of emotional experience and its neural substrates / R. Lane -- Mental representations, the reticular activating system and emotions / B. Cabott -- The role of autonomic balance in experiencing emotions / B. Zei and M. Archinard -- Psychophysiological analysis of the nonlinear dynamics and complexity related to attentional conflicts and affective states / P. Renaud and J.-P. Blondin -- Affective neuroscience and extended reticular thalamic activating system (ERTAS) theories of consciousness / D.F. Watt -- Psychological perspectives. Introduction: Psychological perspectives / A.W. Kaszniak -- The nature and experience of emotions / N.H. Frijda -- Antecedents and functions of emotion episodes / N.H. Frijda -- To think and to feel: Nonconscious emotional activation and consciousness / A. Ohman and S. Wiens -- The experience of emotion: Situational influences on the elicitation and experience of emotions / U. Hes -- The communication of emotion / U. Hess -- The perception of humor / W. Ruch -- The expressive pattern of laughter / W. Ruch and P. Ekman -- Affect balance and total affect versus positive and negative affect as fundamental measures of emotional experience: Simple structure is not always so simple / M.W. Gillespie -- The contribution of the face in the development on emotion and self / J. Cole -- Emotions and learning in a developing robot / R. Manzotti, G. Metta and G. Sandini -- The mental representation of romantic jealousy: A blended emotion (and more) / D.J. Sharpsteen -- Alexithymia and the biocybernetics of shame / R.N. Smith and W. Frawley -- The function of emotional experience in decision-making, problem solving and creative activity / L. Nielsen -- Conclusion. Some future directions in the study of emotion and consciousness / A.W. Kaszniak
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 scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion
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Subject Emotions -- Congresses
Consciousness -- Congresses
Qualia -- Congresses
Cybernetics.
Bionics
Cybernetics
cybernetics.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Emotions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
Cybernetics
Consciousness
Emotions
Qualia
Bewustzijn.
Biocybernetica.
Psychofysiologie.
Amandelkern.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Kaszniak, Alfred W., 1949-
LC no. 2001277883
ISBN 9789812810687
9812810684