Levels of emotion and levels of consciousness
- 1 February 2007
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Vol. 30 (1) , 96-98
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x07001045
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.Keywords
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