Antonio R Damasio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1541471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio R Damasio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio R |
| FAMILY NAME | Damasio |
| SIGNATURE | DAMASIO A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3067-0393 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
« À cache-cache avec la conscience »
The new science of consciousness
This article explores education from a neurobiological perspective, framing it as a fundamental process of adaptation and survival. Rooted in the principle of homeostasis, education regulates human behavior, aligning individuals with their social and natural environments to reduce harm and enhance well-being. Unlike other species, humans rely on structured learning to navigate complex societies, with consciousness and language playing central rol…
Les émotions ne rendent pas (toujours) stupide
Unique personality profiles predict when and why sad music is enjoyed
The experience of sadness is largely unpleasant, but when expressed through music, it can be pleasurable. Previous research has shown that an attraction to sad music is correlated with personality traits like empathy, Absorption, and rumination. However, the intricacies of the relationship between personality, situational factors, and reasons for engaging with sad music have yet to be fully explored. To address this, participants ( N = 431) repor…
The rise of affectivism
Bittersweet: The Neuroscience of Ambivalent Affect
Ambivalent affective states, such as bittersweetness, nostalgia, and longing, which are felt as having both positive and negative aspects, are an important component of human experience but have received little attention. The most influential theoretical frameworks in affective neuroscience focus largely on univalenced states. As a result, it is not known whether ambivalent affect corresponds to a simultaneously positive and negative valenced sta…
The strange order of things: Life, feeling, and the making of the cultures
"A pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular li…
El error de Descartes
Agnosia
Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
The nature of feelings: Evolutionary and neurobiological origins
E O Cerebro Criou O Homem
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education
Recent advances in neuroscience are highlighting connections between emotion, social functioning, and decision making that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the role of affect in education. In particular, the neurobiological evidence suggests that the aspects of cognition that we recruit most heavily in schools, namely learning, attention, memory, decision making, and social functioning, are both profoundly affected by and …
Minding the body
We spend a good part of our lives attending to the sights and sounds of the world outside of us, oblivious to the fact that we (mentally speaking) exist in our bodies, and that our bodies exist in our minds. 1This neglect is both good and bad: good when it allows us to let our own physical suffering go undetected, bad when it screens us from the biological roots of our selves.Be that as it may, the body does come to mind, in no uncertain terms, w…
The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
Different Contributions of the Human Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex to Decision-Making
The somatic marker hypothesis proposes that decision-making is a process that depends on emotion. Studies have shown that damage of the ventromedial prefrontal (VMF) cortex precludes the ability to use somatic (emotional) signals that are necessary for guiding decisions in the advantageous direction. However, given the role of the amygdala in emotional processing, we asked whether amygdala damage also would interfere with decision-making. Further…
Descartes' error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy
Deciding advantageously in a complex situation is thought to require overt reasoning on declarative knowledge, namely, on facts pertaining to premises, options for action, and outcomes of actions that embody the pertinent previous experience. An alternative possibility was investigated: that overt reasoning is preceded by a nonconscious biasing step that uses neural systems other than those that support declarative knowledge. Normal participants …
The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex
In this article I discuss a hypothesis, known as the somatic marker hypothesis, which I believe is relevant to the understanding of processes of human reasoning and decision making. The ventromedial sector of the prefrontal cortices is critical to the operations postulated here, but the hypothesis does not necessarily apply to prefrontal cortex as a whole and should not be seen as an attempt to unify frontal lobe functions under a single mechanis…
Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex
Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala
Neural Mechanisms
Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
The rise of affectivism
Minding the body
We spend a good part of our lives attending to the sights and sounds of the world outside of us, oblivious to the fact that we (mentally speaking) exist in our bodies, and that our bodies exist in our minds. 1This neglect is both good and bad: good when it allows us to let our own physical suffering go undetected, bad when it screens us from the biological roots of our selves.Be that as it may, the body does come to mind, in no uncertain terms, w…
The limbic system and human evolution
The limbic system and human evolution
Neural Mechanisms
Time-locked multiregional retroactivation: A systems-level proposal for the neural substrates of recall and recognition
Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex
Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala
The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex
In this article I discuss a hypothesis, known as the somatic marker hypothesis, which I believe is relevant to the understanding of processes of human reasoning and decision making. The ventromedial sector of the prefrontal cortices is critical to the operations postulated here, but the hypothesis does not necessarily apply to prefrontal cortex as a whole and should not be seen as an attempt to unify frontal lobe functions under a single mechanis…
Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy
Deciding advantageously in a complex situation is thought to require overt reasoning on declarative knowledge, namely, on facts pertaining to premises, options for action, and outcomes of actions that embody the pertinent previous experience. An alternative possibility was investigated: that overt reasoning is preceded by a nonconscious biasing step that uses neural systems other than those that support declarative knowledge. Normal participants …
Descartes' error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Different Contributions of the Human Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex to Decision-Making
The somatic marker hypothesis proposes that decision-making is a process that depends on emotion. Studies have shown that damage of the ventromedial prefrontal (VMF) cortex precludes the ability to use somatic (emotional) signals that are necessary for guiding decisions in the advantageous direction. However, given the role of the amygdala in emotional processing, we asked whether amygdala damage also would interfere with decision-making. Further…
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain
The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision
Minding the body
We spend a good part of our lives attending to the sights and sounds of the world outside of us, oblivious to the fact that we (mentally speaking) exist in our bodies, and that our bodies exist in our minds. 1This neglect is both good and bad: good when it allows us to let our own physical suffering go undetected, bad when it screens us from the biological roots of our selves.Be that as it may, the body does come to mind, in no uncertain terms, w…
Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
We Feel, Therefore We Learn: The Relevance of Affective and Social Neuroscience to Education
Recent advances in neuroscience are highlighting connections between emotion, social functioning, and decision making that have the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the role of affect in education. In particular, the neurobiological evidence suggests that the aspects of cognition that we recruit most heavily in schools, namely learning, attention, memory, decision making, and social functioning, are both profoundly affected by and …
E O Cerebro Criou O Homem
The nature of feelings: Evolutionary and neurobiological origins
Agnosia
Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
El error de Descartes
The strange order of things: Life, feeling, and the making of the cultures
"A pathbreaking investigation into homeostasis, the condition of that regulates human physiology within the range that makes possible not only the survival but also the flourishing of life. Antonio Damasio makes clear that we descend biologically, psychologically, and even socially from a long lineage that begins with single living cells; that our minds and cultures are linked by an invisible thread to the ways and means of ancient unicellular li…
Bittersweet: The Neuroscience of Ambivalent Affect
Ambivalent affective states, such as bittersweetness, nostalgia, and longing, which are felt as having both positive and negative aspects, are an important component of human experience but have received little attention. The most influential theoretical frameworks in affective neuroscience focus largely on univalenced states. As a result, it is not known whether ambivalent affect corresponds to a simultaneously positive and negative valenced sta…
Unique personality profiles predict when and why sad music is enjoyed
The experience of sadness is largely unpleasant, but when expressed through music, it can be pleasurable. Previous research has shown that an attraction to sad music is correlated with personality traits like empathy, Absorption, and rumination. However, the intricacies of the relationship between personality, situational factors, and reasons for engaging with sad music have yet to be fully explored. To address this, participants ( N = 431) repor…
The rise of affectivism
The new science of consciousness
This article explores education from a neurobiological perspective, framing it as a fundamental process of adaptation and survival. Rooted in the principle of homeostasis, education regulates human behavior, aligning individuals with their social and natural environments to reduce harm and enhance well-being. Unlike other species, humans rely on structured learning to navigate complex societies, with consciousness and language playing central rol…
Psychology (20 works) · Neuroscience (15 works) · Cognitive psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (8 works) · Feeling (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Memory and Neural Mechanisms (5 works)