Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain - Brossura

Damasio, Antonio

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ISBN 10: 014303622X ISBN 13: 9780143036227

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2005

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Linking the process of rational decision making to emotions, a scientist who has done extensive research with brain-damaged patients notes the dependence of thought processes on feelings and the body's survival-oriented regulators. Reprint.

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Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist, is at the University of Southern California, where he directs a new brain research institute dedicated to the study of emotion and creativity. He is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. The recipient of numerous awards (several shared with his wife Hanna Damasio, also a neurologist and neuroscientist), he is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of two other widely acclaimed books, The Feeling of What Happens and Looking for Spinoza.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 014303622X
• ISBN 13: 9780143036227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336