The Feeling Brain

Leah Olson (lolson@slc.edu) and Elizabeth Johnston (ebj@slc.edu)
Spring 2008
Wednesdays, 1.30-3.30, Titsworth Living Room

  Week 1: January 23: Introduction:

Reading:
1) James, W. (1884). What is an Emotion? Mind, 9, 188-205.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/emotion.htm


Week 2: January 30: The Evolution of Emotions:

Reading:
1) Darwin, C. R. (1872). The expression of the emotions in man and animals. London: John Murray.
    Read the Introduction, Chapters 1-3 and the final chapter
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheExpressionoftheEmotions.html
2) Ekman, P.,Sorenson, E.R & Friesen, W. V. (1969). Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion. Science, 164: 86-88. Available from JSTOR
3) LeDoux, J. (1996).
The Emotional Brain. Simon & Schuster: New York. Chapters 1-3.
4) Ekman, P., Levenson, R.W. & Friesen, W.V. (1983). Autonomic nervous system activity distinguishes among emotions. Science, 221, 1208-1210. Available from JSTOR
5) Ito, T., Chiao, K.W., Devine, P.G., Lorig, T.S. & Cacioppo, J.T. (2006). Psychological Science, 17, 256-261. PDF online


Week 3: February 2nd: The Neuroanatomy of Emotions:

Readings:
1) Damasio, A. Descartes' Error, Chapters 1-4. (e-reserve) Chapters 1-2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4
2) LeDoux, J. (1996). The Emotional Brain. Simon & Schuster: New York. Chapter 4.
3) Barrett, L.F. & Wager, T.D. (2006). The Structure of Emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 79-83.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/tor/Papers/Feldman-Barret_and_Wager-2006.pdf
4)Adolphs, R. (2002). Neural systems for recognizing emotion. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 169-177. http://emotion.caltech.edu/papers/Adolphs2002Neural.pdf
5)Davidson, R.J. & Irwin, W. (1999). The functional neuroanatomy of emotion and affective style. Trends in Cognitive Science, 3, 11-21.
pdf online

Week 4: February 13th: Emotional Expression

Readings:
1) LeDoux, Chapter 5: The Way We Were
2) Feldman-Barrett, L.Mesquita, B., Ochsner, K.N., Gross, J.J. (2006). The Experience of Emotion. Annual Review of Psychology, 58: 373-403. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~ko2132/pdf/Barrett_AR_2006.pdf
3) Gladwell, M. (2002).
The Naked Face. The New Yorker, August 5th, 38-? Available online at http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm
4) Bechara, A. & Naqvi, N. (2004).
Listening to your heart: interoceptive awareness as a gateway to feeling, Antoine Bechara and Nasir Naqvi, Nature Neuroscience, 7, 102-103. http://www.brams.umontreal.ca/cours/files/PSY-6022A2006/PRainvile/Lectures/Bechara_NatNeurosci2004.pdf
5)Barrett, L.F. & Russell, J.A. (1999).
The Structure of Current Affect: Controversies and Emerging Consensus. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 10-14. Available online.


Week 5: February20th: Language, Culture & Gender

Readings:
1) Niiya, Y., Ellsworth, P. C., & Yamaguchi, S. (2006). Amae in Japan and the United States: An exploration of a "culturally unique" emotion. Emotion, 6(2), 279-295. Available in PsycArticles.
http://remote.slc.edu:2319/journals/emo/6/2/279.html

2) Wager, T.D. & Ochsner, K.N. (2005).
Sex Differences in the emotional brain. NeuroReport, Vol. 16, p. 85-87. Available online at http://www.columbia.edu/~ko2132/pdf/Wager_Ochsner_sex-diffs_emot_brain.pdf
3)
Matsumoto, D. (2001).
Cross-cultural psychology in the 21st century. In Halonen, J.S. & Davis, S.F. (Eds.),
The Many Faces of Psychological Research in the 21st Century, e-book, Available online at http://teachpsych.org/resources/e-books/faces/script/Ch05.htm
4) Harris, C.L., Gleason, J.B., Aycicegi, A.
(2006). When is a first language more emotional? Psychophysiological evidence from bilingual speakers. In A. Pavlenko (Ed.), Bilingual minds: Emotional experience, expression, and representation. Clevedon, United Kingdom : Multilingual Matters. PDF online


Week 6: February 27th: Development of Emotions

1) Siegel, D. (2001). Toward an interpersonal neurobiology of the developing mind: attachment relationships, "mindsight", and neural integration. Infant Mental Health Journal, 22, 67-94. Available in EBSCOHost Academic Search
http://remote.slc.edu:2284/ehost/pdf?vid=4&hid=120&sid=1b974830-8573-4d2f-a00f-e0def004f828%40sessionmgr108
also via myslc (in case there are any problems with the link above)
2) Lewis, M. (2000). The emergence of human emotions. In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed.) (pp. 265-280). New York : Guilford Press. on e-reserve
3) Harris, P. (2000). Understanding emotion.In Lewis, M. & Haviland-Jones, J.M. (Eds.), Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed.) (pp. 281-292). New York : Guilford Press. on e-reserve
4) Hamlin, J.K., Wynn, K. & Bloom, P. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature, 450, 557-560. pdf available via myslc
5)Hofer, M.A. (2006). Psychobiological Roots of Early Attachment. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 84-88. pdf available via myslc

 

Week 7: March 5th: Emotional Memory

Readings
1) LeDoux, Chapters 6 & 7
2) McGaugh, J.L. (2003). Memory and Emotion. New York: Columbia. Chapters 1-3
3) Dolcos, F., LaBar, K.S., Cabeza, R. (2005). Remembering one year later: Role of the amygdala and the medial temporal lobe memory system in retrieving emotional memories. PNAS, 102, 2626-2631. Available online
4) Sharot, T., Delgado, M.R. & Phelps, E.A. (2004). How emotion enhances the feeling of remembering. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 1376-1378. Available online

Week 8: March 12th: Emotional Memory

Readings
1) McGaugh, Chapters 4-6
2) LaBar, K.S. & Cabeza, R. (2006). Cognitive neuroscience of emotional memory. Nature Neuroscience Reviews, 7, 54-64. Available online
3) LeDoux, Chapter 8
4) Clore, G.L. & Huntsinger, J.R. (2007). How emotions inform judgment and regulate thought. Trends in Cognitive Science, 11, 395-399. Available from myslc

 


SPRING BREAK


Week 9 April 2: Dissection of a Sheep Brain: Meet in the Biology Lab - 2nd Floor of the Ilchman Science Center

For an on-line introduction, go to:            

http://academic.scranton.edu/department/psych/sheep/framerow.html

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Week 10: April 9th: Emotions and Cognition

1) LeDoux, Chapter 9

2) Ochsner, K.N. & Gross, J.J. (2005). The cognitive control of emotion. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 242-249. Available online

3) Dolan, R.J. (2002) Emotion, Cognition and Behavior, Science, 298,1191-1194. pdf on myslc

4) Tsuchiya, N. and Adolphs, R. (2007). Emotion and Consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 11, 158-167. pdf on myslc

Emotion & Cognition Presentation: Possible Papers


Week 11: April 16th: Decision Making & Neuroethics

1) Bechara, A., Damasio, H., Tranel, D. & Damasio, A.R. (2005). The Iowa Gambling task and the somatic maker hypothesis : some questions and answers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9, 159-162. Available online

2) Grimes, K. (2003). To trust is human. New Scientist, May 10.

3) Sanfey, A.G., Loewenstein, G., McClure, S.M. & Cohen, J.D. (2006). Neuroeconomics: cross-currents in research on decision-making. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10,108-116. Available online

4) DeMartino, Benedetto, Kumaran, Dharshan, Seymour, Ben and Dolan, Raymond J., Frames, biases and rational decision making in the human brain (2006) Science 313:684-687 pdf on myslc

5) Daw, Nathaniel, D. O’Doherty, John P. Dayan, Peter, Seymour, Ben and Dolan, Raymond J., Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans (2006)  Nature 441:876-879. pdf on myslc

6) Hsu, Ming, Bhatt, Meghana, Adolphs, Ralph, Tranel, Daniel, and Camerer, Colin F. Neural systems responding to degrees of uncertainty in human decision-making, (2005) Science 310:1680-1683. pdf on myslc

7) Greene, J. & Haidt, J. (2002). How (and where) does moral judgment work? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 517. Available online

8) Zimmer, C. (2004). Whose Life would you save? Discover, April, Available online

Decision Making Presentation: Possible Papers




Week 12: April 23th: Hedonics/Reward:

1) Berridge, K. C. (2004). Simple pleasures. (invited column) Psychological Science Agenda, 18 (11). American Psychological Association. APA Online, 2004. Available online

2) Berridge, K.C. & Robinson, T.E. (2003). Parsing reward.  Trends in Neurosciences, 26(9), 507-513. Available online

3) Berridge, K.C. & Winkielman, P. (2003). What is an unconscious emotion? Cognition & Emotion, 17, 181-211. Available online

4) Gilbert, D.T., Lieberman, M.D., Morewedge, C.K & Wilson, T.D. (2004). The peculiar longevity of things not so bad. Psychological Science, 15, 14-19. Available online

5) Loewenstein, George (2006). The pleasures and pains of information. Science 312:704-706. pdf online

6) Hayden, Benjamin Y. and Platt, Michael L. (2006). Fool me once, shame on me – fool me twice, blame the ACC. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 857-859. pdf online

7) Sweeny, Kate, Carroll, Patrick J. and Shepperd, James A. (2006). Is Optimism Always Best? Future outlooks and preparedness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 302-306. pdf on myslc

8) Schacter, Daniel L. and Addis, Donna Rose (2007). The optimistic brain. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 1345-1347. pdf online

Hedonics/Reward Presentation: Possible Papers


Week 13: April 30th: Social Neuroscience (Empathy):

1) Frith, Uta; Frith, Chris.(2007) Social Cognition in Humans. Current Biology, 17:R724-R732. pdf on myslc

2) Ramachandran, V. (1995). Mirror Neurons and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution, The Edge, Available online

3) Qiu, J. (2006). Does it hurt? Nature, 444, 143-145. Available online

4) Adolphs, R. (2006). The Social Brain. Engineering & Science No., 2-8. available online

5) Eisenberger, N. I., & Lieberman, M. D. (2004). Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social pain. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 294-300. Available online

6) Blakemore, S-J, Winston, J. & Frith, U. (2004). Social cognitive neuroscience: where are we heading? TICS, 8, 216-222. (NB Figures 1 & 2 are switched) available online

7) Frith, C.D. & Frith, U. (2006). How we predict what other people are going to do. Brain Research, 1079, 36-46. pdf on myslc

Social Neuroscience (Empathy) Presentation: Possible Papers

Week 14: May 7th: Social Neuroscience (Emotions and Health):

1) Gross, J. (1998). The emerging field of emotion regulation: an integrative review. Review of General Psychology, 2, 271-299. Available online

2) Kandel, E. (1998).A new intellectual framework for psychiatry. American Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 457-469. Available online


3) Kabbaj, M. (2004). Neurobiological Bases of Individual Differences in Emotional and Stress Responsiveness. Arch. Neurology, 61, 1009-1012. pdf on myslc

4) Lerner, J.S., Dahl, R.E., Hariri, A.R., Taylor, S.E. (2006). Facial Expressions of Emotion Reveal Neuroendocrine and Cardiovascular Stress Responses. Biological Psychiatry, Available online

5) Cacioppo, John T. et al. Social Neuroscience Progress and Implications for Mental Health (2007) Perspectives on Psychological Science 2 :99-123 pdf on myslc

Social Neuroscience (Emotions & Health) Presentation: Possible Papers

Moral Cognition/Neuroethics Presentation: Possible Papers


Week 15: May 14th: Conference Presentations