A Neuroscientist’s Perspective on Debates about the Nature of Emotion

Emotion Review 4 (4):375-379 (2012)
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The target articles by Dixon (2012), Scarantino (2012), and Mulligan and Scherer (2012) explore the nature of emotion from philosophical and psychological perspectives. I discuss how neuroscience can also contribute to debates about the nature of emotion. I focus on the aspects of emotion that usually fall within the topic of basic emotions, but conclude that we may need to revise how we conceive and study these kinds of emotional states in relation to the brain

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What's basic about basic emotions?Andrew Ortony & Terence J. Turner - 1990 - Psychological Review 97 (3):315-331.

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