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Levels of emotion and levels of consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

Carroll Izard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. izard@udel.edu

Abstract

Merker makes a strong case for the upper brain stem as being the neural home of primary or phenomenal consciousness. Though less emphasized, he makes an equally strong and empirically supported argument for the critical role of the mesodiencephalon in basic emotion processes. His evidence and argument on the functions of brainstem systems in primary consciousness and basic emotion processes present a strong challenge to prevailing assumptions about the primacy of cognition in emotion-cognition-behavior relations.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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