Emotional consciousness: A neural model of how cognitive appraisal and somatic perception interact to produce qualitative experience

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 811-834

  Thagard, Paul ^a   Aubie, Brandon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive appraisal; Coherence; Consciousness; Emotion; Emotional change; Neural mechanisms; Representation; Somatic perception; Valence; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANDREA MODEL; ANGER; ARTICLE; CHANGE THEORY; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; EMOCON MODEL; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION; EMOTIONAL INTENSITY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; FEAR; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONELINESS; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD; MOOD CHANGE; NEUROCOMPUTATIONAL THEORY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; THEORY; THEORY CONSTRUCTION; THEORY OF EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS; VALENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AFFECT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47149105486     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.05.014     Document Type: Article

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