3-5 PAGE ESSAY, 1.5 SPACING. ONLY ASSIGNED TEXTS AS REFERENCES MENTIONED ARE TO BE USED ( I WILL PROVIDE THE ASSIGNED TEXTS). NO ONLINE CITATIONS OR REFERNCES.
Instructions:
Discuss, following the work of Damasio and Ledoux, the neurological structures and importance of emotions and feelings in memory, learning and decision-making. When elaborating your essay take into account the following:
1) What is the difference between feelings and emotions in terms of its neurological structures and cognitive functions.
2) How does the work of Damasio and Ledoux question the usual relationship between reasoning and emotions (or feelings).
3) How their work gives us a better understanding of the role of feelings in guiding our conscious decisions.
4) Use at least two (2) of the assigned texts to substantiate your discussion.
Assigned texts (in the order they were assigned and discussed)
Ledoux, J. (2015). Feelings: What Are They & How Does the Brain Make Them? American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 96-111.
Ledoux, J. (2002). Emotion, Memory and the Brain. Scientific American. 62-71 Damasio, A. (2001). Fundamental feelings. Nature, 413 (25), 781.
Immordino-Yang, M.H. & Damasio, A. (2007). We feel, therefore we learn: The relevance of affective and social neuroscience in education. Mind, brain, and education 1 (1), 3-10.
Damasio, H. Grabowski, T. Frank, R., Galaburda, A.M., & Damasio, A. (1994). The Return of Phineas Gage: Clues About the Brain from the Skull of a Famous Patient. Science 264, 5162, 1102-1105.
Damasio, A. (1996). The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and the Possible Functions of the
Prefrontal Cortex. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences 351 (1346), 1413-1420.
Suggested texts
Burns, K. & Bechara, A. (2007). Decision Making and Free Will: A Neuroscience Perspective. Behavioral Sciences and the Law 25, 263-280.
Damasio, A. (1994). Gage’s Brain Revealed. In Antonio Damasio, Descartes’s Error. Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (20-33). New York: Avon Books.
Damasio, A. (1994). A modern Phineas Gage. In Antonio Damasio, Descartes’s Error. Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (34-51). New York: Avon Books.
Damasio, A. (2010). Does moral action depend on reasoning? Yes and No. Templeton Report, 46 http://www.templeton.org/reason/
Gazzaniga, M. (2005). My Brain Made Me Do It. In Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain (87-102). New York: Dana Press.
Gazzaniga, M. (2010). Does moral action depend on reasoning? Not Really. Templeton Report,
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