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American journal of primatology

ISSN 1098-2345

1 paper in the library · publishing 2011

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Toward a cross-species neuroscientific understanding of the affective mind: do animals have emotional feelings?

American journal of primatology June 2011 Jaak Panksepp

Do we need to consider mental processes in our analysis of brain functions in other animals? Obviously we do, if such BrainMind functions exist in the animals we wish to understand. If so, how do we proceed, while still retaining materialistic-mechanistic perspectives? This essay outlines the historical forces that led to emotional feelings in animals being marginalized in behavioristic...