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Models for cognition and emotion: Evolutionary and linguistic considerations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Carlos Montemayor
Carlos Montemayor*
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Department of Philosophy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132. [email protected]://sites.google.com/site/carlosmontemayorphilosophysfsu/home
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Abstract

A central claim in Luiz Pessoa's (2013) book is that the terms “emotion” and “cognition” can be useful in characterizing behaviors but will not be cleanly mapped into brain regions. In order to be verified, this claim requires models for the integration and interfacing of emotion and cognition; yet, such models remain problematic.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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