Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are

By Joseph E LeDoux. 2002

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Born to Learn: the Inspiration, Progress, and Future of Evolved Plastic Artificial Neural Networks (2017, background): “…advances in neuroscience suggest that plasticity in the brain is far more responsible for the manifestation of behaviors and skills than previously thought (LeDoux, 2003; Doidge, 2007; Grossberg, 2012), meaning that behavior is less determined by genetics and more by stimuli-driven plasticity.”
Affective consciousness: Core emotional feelings in animals and humans. (2005, background): “Various opinion leaders (e.g., LeDoux, 1996, 2002) continue to assert that the existence of animal experiences is empirically unknowable (as they were before the advent of modern cross-species neuroscience and molecular biology), and hence, argue such brain functions should continue to be…”
RETHINKING THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN (2012, positive): “These survival circuits and their adaptive functions are conserved to a significant degree in across mammalian species, including humans.”
Extinction learning in humans: role of the amygdala and vmPFC. (2004, background): “Milad and Quirk (2002) found that vmPFCto response output (LeDoux, 2002).”
Annual Research Review: Enduring neurobiological effects of childhood abuse and neglect (2016, neutral): “Interestingly, brain regions and pathways involved in regulating response to threatening stimuli (Herman & Mueller, 2006 ; J. LeDoux, 1996; J. E. LeDoux, 2002; Maren, Phan, & Liberzon, 2013 ) overlap extensively with regions found to differ structurally in maltreated individuals (Teicher & Samson,…”
Linking herbivore experience, varied diets, and plant biochemical diversity (2003, background): “Social and physical environments, continually interacting with the genome during growth and development, influence gene expression and generate behavioral responses (LeDoux, 2002; McCormick et al., 2000; Moore, 2002; Dufty et al., 2002).”
Facets and dimensions of cross‐cultural adaptation:refining the tools (2005, background): “This adds an interesting twist to adaptation research since people tend to remember selectively what emotions they felt during the course of an interaction (see LeDoux, 2002, p. 202, for an example). This supports Roth’s (1997) contention that emotions are concentrated experiences, and is particular”
Developing Sustainable Leaders Through Coaching and Compassion (2006, background): “The experience of compassion evokes responses within the human body that arouse the parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS), reversing the effects of the stress response and arousal of the SNS (Davidson, 2002; LeDoux, 2002; Sapolsky, 2004).”
A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, neutral): “The representative engine conditions for light Diesel and HFO fuelled engines are listed in Table 1 in which the effect of cylinder pressure and temperature is reflected in the gas properties; the data of Table 1 are used to draw the engine conditions in Figure 1.”
The self-regulation of emotion (2010, background): “Rudimentary forms of habituation can already be observed in animals such as sea slugs, who possess only a few hundred neurons (LeDoux, 2002).”
Humanising Managerialism: Reclaiming Emotional Reasoning, Intuition, the Relationship, and Knowledge and Skills in Social Work (2014, background): “Here it is important to remember the ‘use it or lose it’ principle (LeDoux, 2002, p. 79) in neuroscience which states that brain cells that are not used, and do not ‘fire’, can fall away and wither.”
The enactive mind, or from actions to cognition: lessons from autism. (2003, background): “This process, in turn, leads to individual variation in neurofunctional specialization given that more prominence is given in this framework to the notion of the brain as a repository of experiences (LeDoux 2002); that is, our ‘brain becomes who we are’ or experience repeatedly.”