Levels of emotion and levels of consciousness
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (1):96-98 (2007)
| 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. (Published Online May 1 2007) | |||||||||
| Keywords | Cerebral Cortex* Consciousness States* Neurology* Emotions Experimental Psychology Motivation Neurophysiology | |||||||||
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