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THE PASSIONATE MIND: BRAIN, DREAMS, MEMORY, AND SOCIAL CATEGORIES
Author(s) -
Fox Robin
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1986.tb00733.x
Subject(s) - emotive , psychology , hippocampus , cognition , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , social memory , neuroscience , epistemology , philosophy
. The intellectualist position held by structuralists does not explain the extremes of emotional reaction to the disruption of social categories. An approach from neuroscience based on the functions of the limbic system in the creation of long‐term memory through the role of the hippocampus and REM sleep is proposed to account for the emotive loading of cognitive categories.