The Passionate Mind: Brain, Dreams, Memory, and Social Categories

Abstract. The intellectualist position held by structuralists does not explain the extremes of emotional reaction to the disruption of social categories. An approach from neuroscience based on the functions of the limbic system in the creation of long-term memory through the role of the hippocampus...

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Main Author: Fox, Robin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1986
In: Zygon
Year: 1986, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Pages: 31-46
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Summary:Abstract. The intellectualist position held by structuralists does not explain the extremes of emotional reaction to the disruption of social categories. An approach from neuroscience based on the functions of the limbic system in the creation of long-term memory through the role of the hippocampus and REM sleep is proposed to account for the emotive loading of cognitive categories.
ISSN:1467-9744
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Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1986.tb00733.x