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Brain Imaging Investigation of the Impairing Effect of Emotion on Cognition
Published on: February 1, 2012
The cognitive-emotional brain is an embodied and social brain
Julian Kiverstein1, Mark Miller2
1Institute of Logic,Language and Computation,University of Amsterdam,1012GC Amsterdam,The Netherlands.j.d.kiverstein@uva.nlhttp://www.illc.uva.nl.
Abstract:
Pessoa (2013) makes a compelling case for conceiving of emotion and cognition as deeply integrated processes in the brain. We will begin our commentary by asking what implications this view of the brain has for an ontology of cognition--a theory of what cognition is and what cognitive processes exist. We will suggest that Pessoa's book, The Cognitive-Emotional Brain, provides strong support for an embodied theory of cognition. We end our commentary by offering some speculation about how Pessoa's arguments naturally extend to social cognition.
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