This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Luiz Pessoa, author of The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together.

This is Pessoa's first book aimed at a general audience and it provides a concise overview of our current understanding of basic brain function. However, he also explains the limitations of the traditional modular view of the brain. A key take home point is that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined at every level.

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Links and References:

• The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together by Luiz Pessoa

• The Cognitive-Emotional Brain: From Interactions to Integration by Luiz Pessoa: BS 207 (encore)

• Pessoa, L., & Adolphs, R. (2010). Emotion processing and the amygdala: from a 'low road' to 'many roads' of evaluating biological significance. Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 11(11), 773–783. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2920

• The Neuroscience of Emotion: A New Synthesis by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson (mentioned by Dr. Pessoa and discussed in BS 151)

• The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide US by David J Anderson (BS 195)

• Luiz Pessoa, PhD: Professor of Psychology,University of Maryland

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