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Title: | Differentiation in cognitive and emotional processes: An evolutionary analysis | Contributor(s): | Barnard, PJ (author); Duke, DJ (author); Byrne, RW (author); Davidson, Iain (author) | Publication Date: | 2007 | DOI: | 10.1080/02699930701437477 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1904 | Abstract: | It is often argued that human emotions, and the cognitions that accompany them, involve refinements of, and extensions to, more basic functionality shared with other species. Such refinements may rely on common or on distinct processes and representations. Multi-level theories of cognition and affect make distinctions between qualitatively different types of representations often dealing with bodily, affective and cognitive attributes of self-related meanings. This paper will adopt a particular multi-level perspective on mental architecture and show how a mechanism of subsystem differentiation could have allowed an evolutionarily "old" role for emotion in the control of action to have altered into one more closely coupled to meaning systems. We conclude by outlining some illustrative consequences of our analysis that might usefully be addressed in research in comparative psychology, cognitive archaeology, and in laboratory research on memory for emotional material. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Cognition and Emotion, 21(6), p. 1155-1183 | Publisher: | Psychology Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1464-0600 0269-9931 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170299 Cognitive Science not elsewhere classified | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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