Emotions, qualia, and consciousness proceedings of the International School of Biocybernetics, Casamicciola, Napoli, Italy, 19-24 October 1998 (World Scientific, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references
Introductory lecture. Emotion and consciousness: Current research and controversies / A. W. Kaszniak -- Philosophical perspectives. Introduction: Philosophical perspectives / A. W. Kaszniak -- Emotion and the problem of psychological categories / P. E. Griffiths -- The nature of typical emotions / A. Ben-Ze'ev -- Determinants of emotional intensity / A. Ben-Ze'ev -- Emotional qualia / C. Calabi -- Karl Jaspers' phenomenological approach to emotion in his general psychopathology / A. L. Gluck -- Emotions associated to cognitive revision as a basis for values / P. Livet -- Emotion and intersubjective perception: A speculative account / S. Gallagher -- Biological perspectives. Introduction: Biological perspectives / A. W. Kaszniak -- Evolutionary perspectives on emotion / P. E. Griffiths -- Towards a genetics of joy: Breeding rats for "laughter" / J. Panksepp, J. Burgdorf and N. Gordon -- The neuroscience of fear: Perspectives from animal research / J. LeDoux --
- Amygdala and processing of information with emotional content / P. Caldbrese ... [et al.] -- Neuro-affective processes and the brain substrates of emotion: Emerging perspectives and dilemmas / J. Panksepp -- The affective dimension of pain: Mechanisms and implications / C. R. Chapman and Y. Nakamura -- Psychophysiology of emotional perception and implications for understanding emotion-memory relationships / M. Bradley -- Imagery and emotion: Information networks in the brain / P. J. Lang -- Hemispheric asymmetries in representation and control of emotions: Evidence from unilateral brain damage / G. Gainotti -- Hemisphere asymmetries for autonomic functions: Evidence from normal subjects and brain-damaged patients / G. Gianotti -- Hierarchical organization of emotional experience and its neural substrates / R. Lane -- Mental representations, the reticular activating system and emotions / B. Cabott -- The role of autonomic balance in experiencing emotions / B. Zei and M. Archinard --
- Psychophysiological analysis of the nonlinear dynamics and complexity related to attentional conflicts and affective states / P. Renaud and J.-P. Blondin -- Affective neuroscience and extended reticular thalamic activating system (ERTAS) theories of consciousness / D. F. Watt -- Psychological perspectives. Introduction: Psychological perspectives / A. W. Kaszniak -- The nature and experience of emotions / N. H. Frijda -- Antecedents and functions of emotion episodes / N. H. Frijda -- To think and to feel: Nonconscious emotional activation and consciousness / A. Ohman and S. Wiens -- The experience of emotion: Situational influences on the elicitation and experience of emotions / U. Hes -- The communication of emotion / U. Hess -- The perception of humor / W. Ruch -- The expressive pattern of laughter / W. Ruch and P. Ekman --
- Affect balance and total affect versus positive and negative affect as fundamental measures of emotional experience: Simple structure is not always so simple / M. W. Gillespie -- The contribution of the face in the development on emotion and self / J. Cole -- Emotions and learning in a developing robot / R. Manzotti, G. Metta and G. Sandini -- The mental representation of romantic jealousy: A blended emotion (and more) / D. J. Sharpsteen -- Alexithymia and the biocybernetics of shame / R. N. Smith and W. Frawley -- The function of emotional experience in decision-making, problem solving and creative activity / L. Nielsen -- Conclusion. Some future directions in the study of emotion and consciousness / A. W. Kaszniak