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The basic emotional circuits of mammalian brains: do animals have affective lives?

Jaak Panksepp
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
- Vol. 35, Iss: 9, pp 1791-1804
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Since all vertebrates appear to have some capacity for primal affective feelings, the implications for animal-welfare and how the authors ethically treat other animals are vast.
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This article is published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 351 citations till now.

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No evidence that pain is painful neural process

TL;DR: It is claimed that fish do not feel pain because they lack the neural structures that have a contingent causal role in generating and feeling pain in mammals, and it is argued that no conclusive evidence supports the sufficiency of any mammalian neural structure to produce pain.
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Which types of rooting material give weaner pigs most pleasure

TL;DR: Peat, and peat in combination with straw and silage, were the most consistently effective rooting materials for inducing positive (i.e. pleasurable) affective states, and reducing behaviours associated with harm, in weaned pigs.
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Neuro-Evolutionary Foundations of Infant Minds: From Psychoanalytic Visions of How Primal Emotions Guide Constructions of Human Minds toward Affective Neuroscientific Understanding of Emotions and Their Disorders

TL;DR: As Louis Sander understood, human infants are evolutionarily endowed with emotional minds that allow them to experience themselves as affectively vibrant creatures who seek to be recognized as imp... as discussed by the authors.
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Animal Welfare at the Group Level: More Than the Sum of Individual Welfare?

TL;DR: It is argued that actual perceived welfare status of individuals in a population may vary over a wide range even under identical environmental conditions, which would imply that optimum welfare of a social group might be achieved in situations where individual group members differ markedly in apparent welfare status and perceive their own welfare as being optimal under differing circumstances.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

TL;DR: The authors argued that rational decisions are not the product of logic alone - they require the support of emotion and feeling, drawing on his experience with neurological patients affected with brain damage, Dr Damasio showed how absence of emotions and feelings can break down rationality.
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The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

TL;DR: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals Introduction to the First Edition and Discussion Index, by Phillip Prodger and Paul Ekman.
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How do you feel? Interoception: the sense of the physiological condition of the body.

TL;DR: Functional anatomical work has detailed an afferent neural system in primates and in humans that represents all aspects of the physiological condition of the physical body that might provide a foundation for subjective feelings, emotion and self-awareness.
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Sean A Spence
- 06 May 1995 - 
TL;DR: Brain books are similarly popular: humans are considered from a pathological/laboratory perspective and computer metaphors abound (your mind is your software!) and there are boxes and arrows in profusion.
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Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework for the neurobiological analysis of affect is presented, based on the concepts of affective neuroscience and affective operating systems, and subjectivity.
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