The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions / / edited by: Hadas Okon-Singer, Talma Hendler, Luiz Pessoa, and Alexander J. Shackman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910137197903321
• Autore: Talma Hendler
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frontiers Media SA, 2015; [Lausanne, Switzerland] : , : Frontiers Media SA, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (421 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital file(s)
• Collana: Frontiers Research Topics, , 1664-8714
• Soggetti: Emotions and cognition; Amygdaloid body; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Human Anatomy & Physiology; Health & Biological Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph; "Published in: Frontiers in human neuroscience" -- front cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: There is increasing interest in understanding the interplay of emotional and cognitive processes. The objective of the Research Topic was to provide an interdisciplinary survey of cutting-edge neuroscientific research on the interaction and integration of emotion and cognition in the brain. The following original empirical reports, commentaries and theoretical reviews provide a comprehensive survey on recent advances in understanding how emotional and cognitive processes interact, how they are integrated in the brain, and what their implications for understanding the mind and its disorders are. These works encompasses a broad spectrum of populations and showcases a wide variety of paradigms, measures, analytic strategies, and conceptual ; approaches. The aim of the Topic was to begin to address several key questions about the interplay of cognitive and emotional processes in the brain, including: what is the impact of emotional states, anxiety and stress on various cognitive functions? How are emotion and cognition integrated in the brain? Do individual differences in affective dimensions of temperament and personality alter cognitive performance, and how is this realized in the brain? Are there individual differences that increase vulnerability to the impact of affect on cognition--who is vulnerable, and who resilient? How plastic is the interplay of cognition and emotion? Taken together, these works demonstrate that emotion and cognition are deeply interwoven in the fabric of the brain, suggesting that widely held beliefs about the key constituents of 'the emotional brain' and 'the cognitive brain' are fundamentally flawed. Developing a deeper understanding of the emotional-cognitive brain is important, not just for understanding the mind but also for elucidating the root causes of its many debilitating disorders.

The crane's walk : Plato, pluralism, and the inconstancy of truth / / Jeremy Barris

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910970649003321
• Autore: Barris Jeremy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 9786612698835; 9780823246717; 082324671X; 9780823235674; 082323567X; 9781282698833; 1282698834; 9780823238354; 0823238350; 9780823229154; 0823229157
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 359 p. )
• Disciplina: 121
• Soggetti: Truth; Certainty; Pluralism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-347) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- INTRODUCTORY -- IDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else) -- IDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions -- IDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric -- IDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages -- IDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth -- IDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality -- IDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought -- IDEA 8 Mixture and Purity -- CHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview -- CHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love -- CHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct -- CONCLUSION The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Crane's Walk, Jeremy Barris seeks to show that we can conceive and live with a pluralism of standpoints with conflicting standards for truth--with the truth of each being entirely unaffected by the truth of the others. He argues that Plato's work expresses this kind of pluralism, and that this pluralism is important in its own right, whether or not we agree about what Plato's standpoint is.The longest tradition of Plato scholarship identifies crucial faults in Plato's theory of Ideas. Barris argues that Plato deliberately displayed those faults, because he wanted to demonstrate that basic kinds of error or illogic have dimensions that are crucial to the establishing of truth. These dimensions legitimate a paradoxical coordination of logically incompatible conceptions of truth. Connecting this idea with emerging currents of Plato scholarship, he emphasizes, in addition to the dialogues' arguments, the importance of their nonargumentative features, including drama, myths, fictions, anecdotes, and humor. These unanalyzed nonargumentative features function rigorously, as a lever with which to examine the enterprise of rational argument itself, without presupposing its standards or illegitimately assimilating any position to the standards of another.Today, communities are torn apart by conflicts within and between a host of different pluralist and absolutist commitments. The possibility developed in this book-a coordination of absolute and relative truth that allows an understanding of some relativist and some absolutist positions as being fully legitimate and as capable of existing in a relation to their opposites-may contribute to perspectives for resolving these conflicts.