Understanding human emotion is incredibly complex work Delia Baum/plainpicture
IF YOU struggle to define your innermost feelings of love, lust, anger and jealousy, you are not alone – scientists are especially sloppy, sometimes referring to emotions as feelings, at other times referring to internal states or behaviours.
Which is just one of the reasons why Ralph Adolphs and David Anderson have created a new framework for the study of emotion across species. In The Neuroscience of Emotion, the two Caltech professors sift through current studies of emotion, and provide a road map for the future.
Their analysis is authoritative and unsurpassed…
