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Rapaport" Subject: UB CogSci--4/16: Paul Thagard -- EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS Comments: To: cogsci-all-list@listserv.buffalo.edu To: CSE575-FA07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1029; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/6370/Mon Mar 24 14:37:30 2008 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 2551 ======================================================================== NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK NEXT WEEK Complete Spring schedule @ www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/Activities/Colloquium/CLLQS08/2008spring.htm ======================================================================== Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo presents ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Thagard ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Departments of Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Science Director, Cognitive Science Program University of Waterloo http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Biographies/pault.html Wednesday, 16 April 2008; 2:00 p.m.; Park 280 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMOTIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABSTRACT This talk proposes a theory of how conscious emotional experience is produced by the brain as the result of many interacting brain areas coordinated in working memory. These brain areas integrate perceptions of bodily states of an organism with cognitive appraisals of its current situation. Emotions are neural processes that represent the overall cognitive and somatic state of the organism. Conscious experience arises when neural representations achieve high activation as part of working memory. This theory explains numerous phenomena concerning emotional consciousness, including differentiation, integration, intensity, valence, and change. ======================================================================== If you are interested in lunch (4/16, noon) or dinner (4/16, ~6/6:30 pm) with Thagard, please email rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu ======================================================================== For further information, please visit: http://www.cogsci.buffalo.edu/ or contact: William J. Rapaport Colloquium Chair, Center for Cognitive Science Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy & Linguistics 201 Bell Hall | (716) 645-3180 x 112 Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering | fax: (716) 645-3464 University at Buffalo (SUNY) | rapaport@cse.buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 | http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport Buffalo Restaurant Guide: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/restaurant.guide/ Good Things about Buffalo: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalo.html