Il cervello emotivo. Alle origini delle emozioni

"You're reading that for *fun*?" "Yup." Okay so it wasn't really "fun", reading this book, and god knows it took me nearly the entire summer to finish it, but here are some crazy tidbits about our emotional brain: You know how sometimes you wished you could will yourself to feel a certain way about

Brief Review A prominent researcher who focuses on the “emotional brain,” Joseph LeDoux contends that, contrary to the belief of some experts, there is no single emotional or “limbic” system in the brain, but different systems for different emotions. He also maintains that the fear system, in which Leggi tutto

This book was by no means an easy read for a lay person like me, though I am sure Ledoux has oversimplified it for a more general read. I don't know how much of it will I retain, I doubt much but a big takeaway was to realize how complicated our brain is and how much of the processes are happening u Leggi tutto

Very good overview of an integrated view of emotions, (emotive) consciousness and underlying neurophysiological functions. I feel it complements Damasio well. I don't know if there is any more recent writing on the subject, I'll be on the lookout for it. Re-read jan 2018, raising to a 5. It's really Leggi tutto

Wowza! I felt like I was reading a textbook. Definitely hard to follow at times and hard to get through.

I would not have reached for it if I did not have due to work. And it turned out to be fascinating.

This is a good book, although some of the more technical descriptions were challenging. Whether any of this is dated, I can't say. LeDoux argues that we make a mistake when we conceive of emotions as a distinct, unitary system, as we more or less implicitly do when we contrast emotions with cognition Leggi tutto

"The Emotional Brain" was surprisingly tough to get through; I found it a bit of a slog. Ledoux was admittedly trying to walk a line: stay accessible and layman-friendly while not "dumbing-down the science." As to whether or not he succeeded, your mileage may vary. First of all, be aware that Ledoux Leggi tutto