The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration

by Luiz Pessoa

A study that goes beyond the debate over functional specialization to describe the ways that emotion and cognition interact and are integrated in the brain.

The idea that a specific brain circuit constitutes the emotional brain (and its corollary, that cognition resides elsewhere) shaped thinking about emotion and the brain for many years. Recent behavioral, neuropsychological, neuroanatomy, and neuroimaging research, however, suggests that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262019566
• ISBN13: 9780262019569
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher