JUNE AND JULY 2008 ISSUES

Stage Fright articles (In the Spotlight and Can You Feel the Love?): selected further reading

Amygdala, and general theories of emotion:
LeDoux J.E. (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life, Simon & Schuster,

James-Lange theory:
James W. (1884). What is an Emotion? Mind 9: 188-205

Fight or flight:
Cannon W.B. (1915) Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement, Appleton: New York.

Emotional behaviour (general):
Darwin, C.R. (1872). The expression of the emotions in man and animals, London: John Murray [full text available online]
Marks, I. (1987). Fears , Phobias and Rituals: Panic, anxiety and their disorders, (New York: Oxford University Press)

Freezing and withdrawal behaviour:
Azevedo T.M. et al (2005). A freezing-like posture to pictures of mutilation. Psychophysiology 42: 255-260

Coulson M. (2004). Attributing emotion to static body postures: recognition accuracy, confusions, and viewpoint dependence. Journal of nonverbal behaviour 28(2): 117-137

De Silva P.R. and Bianchi-Berthouze N. (2004). Modeling human affective postures: an information theoretic characterization of posture features. Computer animation and virtual worlds 15: 269-276

Motor equivalence:
Lashley, K.S. (1930). Basic neural mechanisms in behavior. Psychological Review Vol.37, pp.1-24 Wing A.M., Haggard P. and Flanagan J.R. (1996). Hand and Brain – The Neurophysiology and Psychology of Hand Movements: Chapter 9 (Rosenbaum D.A., Meulenbroek R.G.J. and Vaughan J., pp 169 – 185)

Klüver-Bucy Syndrome:
Klüver H.and Bucy P. C. (1937) Psychic blindness and other symptoms following bilateral temporal lobectomy in rhesus monkeys, Am J Physiol ;119:352

Jacqueline Du Pre:
Elian M (2006) Klüver-Bucy syndrome and multiple sclerosis. The extraordinary story of Jacqueline du Pré, Multiple Sclerosis, Vol. 12, No. 1 suppl, S1-S228 (2006)

Music and Courtship:
Darwin, C.R. (1871). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray [“…I conclude that musical notes and rhythm were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex. Thus musical tones became firmly associated with some of the strongest passions an animal is capable of feeling…”]

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