Tone of voice and mind : the connections between intonation, emotion, cognition, and consciousness / Norman D. Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Norman D.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 47.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychology.

Consciousness.

Cognition.

Emotions.

Musical perception.

Physical Description:

x, 291 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tone of Voice and Mind is a synthesis of findings from neurophysiology (how neurons produce subjective feeling), neuropsychology (how the human cerebral hemispheres undertake complementary information-processing), intonation studies (how the emotions are encoded in the tone of voice), and music perception (how human beings hear and feel harmony). The focus is on the psychological characteristics that distinguish us from other primate species. At a neuronal level, we are just another mammalian species, but the functional specialization of the human cerebral hemispheres has resulted in three outstanding, uniquely-human talents: language, tool-usage and music. To understand how the human brain coordinates those behaviors is to understand who we are. (Series B).

Contents:

Tone of Voice and Mind

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Part I: Neuropsychology

Chapter 1: Cerebral specialization

Chapter 2: The central dogma of human neuropsychology

Chapter 3: Musical interlude

Chapter 4: The coding of human emotions

Chapter 5: The brain code

Part II: Consciousness and cognition

Chapter 6: Synapses and action potentials

Chapter 7: Synchronization

Chapter 8: A bilateral neural network simulation

Chapter 9: Conclusions

Appendix 1: Musical emotions

Appendix 2: Calculating harmoniousness

References

Index

Advanced In Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786612254628

9781282254626

1282254626

9789027251732

9027251738

9789027297839

9027297835

9780585461922

0585461929

OCLC:

614512595