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The Archaeology of Mind
- Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 27 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach - which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.
This book elaborates on the seven emotional systems that explain how we live and behave. These systems originate in deep areas of the brain that are remarkably similar across all mammalian species. When they are disrupted, we find the origins of emotional disorders.
The book offers an evidence-based evolutionary taxonomy of emotions and affects and, as such, a brand-new clinical paradigm for treating psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.
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- M. J. Dudley
- 21-09-24
Wonderful content if you can cope with the narrati
Excellent book that nicely straddles the space between "pop-science" (Seven Effective Ways to....blah blah blah) and a collection of technical papers.
It's very much in the way of an overview/summary of the situation with respect to the role of emotions/affect in consciousness and the neural mechanisms by which they execute that role.
The other big subject which isn't mentioned in the title is the author's strong conviction that all mammals experience affect and emotions. He is quite convincing in this.
As others have mentioned, the narration is very robotic and, ironically, emotionless. If the recording was post-2023, I would think it was AI. Nevertheless the content managed to overcome that handicap, just.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 28-12-21
Great job
Amazing book and so informative although the narrator hardly pass the Turing test.
There is no way for someone however advance he she is not to learn anything from this book.
If you are not into details and terminology and stuff skip to the last two chapters
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- Merlin Magician
- 02-11-22
Good content atrocious narration
Good content and atrocious narration. I admire the author, essential information and hard going to understand which requires exceptional narration but was the most mechanical and grating reading I have heard to date.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-12-21
Worth reading/listening to
Amazing book bringing light to a very difficult topic. Lots of examples, interpretation and context. Had to listen in 1.25 x mode.
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- Dr Sam A Parker
- 20-02-22
wouldn't recommend
Terrible narrator, almost robotic and doesnt do the genius of Panskepp justice.
just buy the book.
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