The primodial emotions
Subtitle: the dawning of consciousness
By: Derek Denton.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780199203147
Subjects: Emotions; Consciousness; Mind and body; Consciousness -- physiology; Behavior, Animal -- physiology; Brain Chemistry -- physiology; Emotions -- physiology; Instinct
Work titles: Emotions primordiales et l'eveil de la conscience.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The definition of consciousness, and self-awareness; title: What some distinguished scientists have proposed on the nature of consciousness : John Searle, Homer Smith, Vernon Mountcastle, and Roger Sperry; title: Consciousness in animals; title: The appetite for salt and the mind : intention in salt mining elephants; title: Phylogeny, and the emergence of primary consciousness : Edelman's theory; title: An interoceptor driven theory of origin of primary consciousness; title: The physiology of the primordial emotion of thirst; title: The neuroimaging of thirst by positron emission tomography; title: Neuroimaging of other primordial emotions, and also the second level distance receptor evoked emotions; title: Anatomical structure and physiological functions subserving higher order consciousness; title: The biology of emotion.