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Emotional colouration of consciousness: how feelings come about
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This chapter discusses how the brain consciously feels emotions. It argues that feelings are, in most cases, emotionally coloured cognitions, and that emotional consciousness is just a particular instance of cognitive awareness rather than a separate form of awareness mediated by a distinct neural system. It defines emotions, justify a focus on fear, explains that a fearful feeling is an emotionally coloured cognition, argues that working memory provides a useful framework for accounting for the emotional colouration of cognition, and considers the relation of language to consciousness and feelings.
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Rethinking the Emotional Brain
LeDoux, J. (2012) · Neuron · doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.02.004 · Cited by 1,594
“…and motivated states have profound effects on the brain, recruiting widespread areas into the service of the immediate situation, monopolizing and/or synchronizing brain resources, has been proposed previously (Gallistel, 1980; Maturana and Varela, 1987; Scherer, 2000; LeDoux, 2002, 2008).”
Self-citationLeDoux, J. E. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1400335111 · Cited by 891
Self-citationA higher-order theory of emotional consciousness
LeDoux, J. E., & Brown, R. (2017) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1619316114 · Cited by 690
Self-citationUnderstanding the Higher-Order Approach to Consciousness
Brown, R., Lau, H., & LeDoux, J. E. (2019) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.009 · Cited by 573
Self-citationThe subjective experience of emotion: a fearful view
LeDoux, J. E., & Hofmann, S. G. (2018) · Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.09.011 · Cited by 268
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- Authors
- LeDoux, J.
- Corresponding author
- LeDoux, Joseph
- ORCID
- LeDoux, Joseph
- Venue
- Frontiers of ConsciousnessChichele Lectures
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2008-10-16
- Pages
- 69-130
- OpenAlex
- W2485742160
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 4.41
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Cognitive Science and Education Research
- Keywords
- emotional awareness, feelings, emotions, fear, cognitive awareness, working memory, language and consciousness, neural basis of emotion, philosophy of mind
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