How Do You Feel? : An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self / A.D. (Bud) Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, A.D. (Bud), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Physiological aspects.

Emotions.

Affective neuroscience.

Neurobiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How Do You Feel? brings together startling evidence from neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry to present revolutionary new insights into how our brains enable us to experience the range of sensations and mental states known as feelings. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research, neurobiologist Bud Craig has identified an area deep inside the mammalian brain-the insular cortex-as the place where interoception, or the processing of bodily stimuli, generates feelings. He shows how this crucial pathway for interoceptive awareness gives rise in humans to the feeling of being alive, vivid perceptual feelings, and a subjective image of the sentient self across time. Craig explains how feelings represent activity patterns in our brains that signify emotions, intentions, and thoughts, and how integration of these patterns is driven by the unique energy needs of the hominid brain. He describes the essential role of feelings and the insular cortex in such diverse realms as music, fluid intelligence, and bivalent emotions, and relates these ideas to the philosophy of William James and even to feelings in dogs.How Do You Feel? is also a compelling insider's account of scientific discovery, one that takes readers behind the scenes as the astonishing answer to this neurological puzzle is pursued and pieced together from seemingly unrelated fields of scientific inquiry. This book will fundamentally alter the way that neuroscientists and psychologists categorize sensations and understand the origins and significance of human feelings.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Plates

List of Boxes

Preface

1. An Introduction to Interoception

2. Feelings From the Body Viewed as Emotions

3. The Origin of the Interoceptive Pathway

4. Interoception and Homeostasis

5. The Interoceptive Pathway to the Insular Cortex

6. Bodily Feelings Emerge in the Insular Cortex

7. Feelings about Thoughts, Time, and Me

8. Feelings and Emotions on Both Sides of the Brain

9. A Few more Thoughts about Feelings

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Glossary

Reference List

Illustration Credits

Index

Notes:

Includes glossary.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691204086

069120408X

9781400852727

1400852722

OCLC:

984643552