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EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS: CURRENT RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSIES

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812810687_0001Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)
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    The experience of emotion is a nearly constant aspect of the stream of consciousness, and emotional experience appears to interact with other contents and processes of consciousness in complex ways. Recent research has supported the hypothesis that important functional aspects of emotion can operate outside of conscious awareness. Such research raises questions about what conditions are necessary and sufficient for the conscious experience of emotion. Conversely, many scholars and scientists now believe that no scientific or philosophic account of consciousness can be complete without an understanding of the role of emotion. This paper briefly reviews select recent contributions to an understanding of the relationship between emotion and consciousness. Experimental psychological, neuropsychological, and neuroscientific approaches are highlighted, and the author's own recent studies of conscious emotional experience and emotion physiology in different neurological disorders are described. The paper closes with some speculations, derived from this research, concerning the role of frontal brain systems in the conscious experience of emotion.