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Bodily Sensibility : Intelligent Action.

The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibility: intelligent action. They can appear perfunctory or intimate, calculating a sum or selecting a mate. Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonst...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulkin, Jay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The brain is a cognitive organ, and regions of the brain that traverse brainstem and cortical sites orchestrate the expression of bodily sensibility: intelligent action. They can appear perfunctory or intimate, calculating a sum or selecting a mate. Schulkin presents neuroscientific research demonstrating that thought is not on one side and bodily sensibility on the other; from a biological point of view, they are integrated. Schulkin further argues that this integration has important implications for judgements about the emotions, art and music, moral sensibilities, attraction and revulsion,
Descripción Física:1 online resource (365 pages)
ISBN:9780195348743
0195348745