Claudia Carrara-Augustenborg

What affective neuroscience means for science of consciousness.

Mens Sana Monographs 2013 Leonardo Ferreira Almada, Alfredo Pereira, Claudia Carrara-Augustenborg

The field of affective neuroscience has emerged from the efforts of Jaak Panksepp in the 1990s and reinforced by the work of, among others, Joseph LeDoux in the 2000s. It is based on the ideas that affective processes are supported by brain structures that appeared earlier in the phylogenetic scale (as the periaqueductal gray area), they run in parallel with cognitive processes, and can...