The caldron of consciousness : motivation, affect, and self-organization : an anthology /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000.
Description:1 online resource (xxii, 276 pages)
Language:English
Series:Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 16
Advances in consciousness research ; v. 16.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125736
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Other authors / contributors:Ellis, Ralph D.
Newton, Natika.
ISBN:0585461201
9780585461205
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9789027251367
1556191960
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from unconscious information processing hinges on the role of motivating emotions in all conscious modalities, and how emotional brain processes interact with those traditionally associated with cognitive function. Computationally registering/processing sensory signals (e.g. in the occipital lobe or area V4) by.
Other form:Print version: Caldron of consciousness. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2000 1556191960 9027251363