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The primordial emotions : the dawning of consciousness / Derek Denton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denton, Derek A., Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Emotions primordiales et l'eveil de la conscience. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emotions.
- Consciousness.
- Mind and body.
- Instinct.
- Consciousness--physiology.
- Behavior, Animal--physiology.
- Brain Chemistry--physiology.
- Emotions--physiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Consciousness--physiology.
- Behavior, Animal--physiology.
- Brain Chemistry--physiology.
- Emotions--physiology.
- Instinct.
- Consciousness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 267 pages, [12] leaves of plates) : illustrations (some color)
- Other Title:
- Dawning of consciousness
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting an accessible look at the evolution of consciousness this title traces its origins back to early man's primordial emotions - those elicited from basic needs such as hunger and thirst.
- Contents:
- The definition of consciousness, and self-awareness
- What some distinguished scientists have proposed on the nature of consciousness : John Searle, Homer Smith, Vernon Mountcastle, and Roger Sperry
- Consciousness in animals
- The appetite for salt and the mind : intention in salt mining elephants
- Phylogeny, and the emergence of primary consciousness : Edelman's theory
- An interoceptor driven theory of origin of primary consciousness
- The physiology of the primordial emotion of thirst
- The neuroimaging of thirst by positron emission tomography
- Neuroimaging of other primordial emotions, and also the second level distance receptor evoked emotions
- Anatomical structure and physiological functions subserving higher order consciousness
- The biology of emotion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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