Hanna Damasio
Biographic Data
| ID | 162283 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanna Damasio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Damasio |
| SIGNATURE | DAMASIO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The rise of affectivism
Cultural modes of expressing emotions influence how emotions are experienced
The brain's mapping of bodily responses during emotion contributes to emotional experiences, or feelings. Culture influences emotional expressiveness, that is, the magnitude of individuals' bodily responses during emotion. So, are cultural influences on behavioral expressiveness associated with differences in how individuals experience emotion? Chinese and American young adults reported how strongly admiration- and compassion-inducing stories mad…
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 aging brain: The cognitive reserve hypothesis and hominid evolution
Compared to other primates, humans live a long time and have large brains. Recent theories of the evolution of human life history stages (grandmother hypothesis, intergenerational transfer of information) lend credence to the notion that selection for increased life span and menopause has occurred in hominid evolution, despite the reduction in the force of natural selection operating on older, especially post-reproductive, individuals. Theories t…
Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: A 3-D lesion study
Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: A 3-D lesion study
Which brain regions are associated with recognition of emotional prosody? Are these distinct from those for recognition of facial expression? These issues were investigated by mapping the overlaps of co-registered lesions from 66 brain-damaged participants as a function of their performance in rating basic emotions. It was found that recognizing emotions from prosody draws on the right frontoparietal operculum, the bilateral frontal pole, and the…
Normal neuroanatomical variation in the human brain: An MRI‐volumetric study
Normative data on the in vivo size of the human brain and its major anatomically defined subdivisions are not readily available. In this study, high‐resolution magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure regional brain volumes in 46 normal, right‐handed adults (23 men, 23 women) between the ages of 22–49 years. Parcellation of the brain was based on neuroanatomical landmarks. The following brain regions were measured: the cerebral hemispheres,…
Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions
On a gambling task that models real-life decisions, patients with bilateral lesions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VM) opt for choices that yield high immediate gains in spite of higher future losses. In this study, we addressed three possibilities that may account for this behaviour: (i) hypersensitivity to reward; (ii) insensitivity to punishment; and (iii) insensitivity to future consequences, such that behaviour is always guided by im…
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
The brain and its main anatomical subdivisions in living hominoids using magnetic resonance imaging
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…
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 evolution of the frontal lobes: A Volumetric Analysis Based on Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of Magnetic Resonance Scans of Human and Ape Brains
Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex
The brain and its main anatomical subdivisions in living hominoids using magnetic resonance imaging
The evolution of the frontal lobes: A Volumetric Analysis Based on Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of Magnetic Resonance Scans of Human and Ape Brains
The rise of affectivism
Normal neuroanatomical variation in the human brain: An MRI‐volumetric study
Normative data on the in vivo size of the human brain and its major anatomically defined subdivisions are not readily available. In this study, high‐resolution magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure regional brain volumes in 46 normal, right‐handed adults (23 men, 23 women) between the ages of 22–49 years. Parcellation of the brain was based on neuroanatomical landmarks. The following brain regions were measured: the cerebral hemispheres,…
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…
Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex
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 evolution of the frontal lobes: A Volumetric Analysis Based on Three-Dimensional Reconstructions of Magnetic Resonance Scans of Human and Ape Brains
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…
Characterization of the decision-making deficit of patients with ventromedial prefrontal cortex lesions
On a gambling task that models real-life decisions, patients with bilateral lesions of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VM) opt for choices that yield high immediate gains in spite of higher future losses. In this study, we addressed three possibilities that may account for this behaviour: (i) hypersensitivity to reward; (ii) insensitivity to punishment; and (iii) insensitivity to future consequences, such that behaviour is always guided by im…
Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions
The brain and its main anatomical subdivisions in living hominoids using magnetic resonance imaging
Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: A 3-D lesion study
Neural systems for recognition of emotional prosody: A 3-D lesion study
Which brain regions are associated with recognition of emotional prosody? Are these distinct from those for recognition of facial expression? These issues were investigated by mapping the overlaps of co-registered lesions from 66 brain-damaged participants as a function of their performance in rating basic emotions. It was found that recognizing emotions from prosody draws on the right frontoparietal operculum, the bilateral frontal pole, and the…
Normal neuroanatomical variation in the human brain: An MRI‐volumetric study
Normative data on the in vivo size of the human brain and its major anatomically defined subdivisions are not readily available. In this study, high‐resolution magnetic resonance imaging was used to measure regional brain volumes in 46 normal, right‐handed adults (23 men, 23 women) between the ages of 22–49 years. Parcellation of the brain was based on neuroanatomical landmarks. The following brain regions were measured: the cerebral hemispheres,…
The aging brain: The cognitive reserve hypothesis and hominid evolution
Compared to other primates, humans live a long time and have large brains. Recent theories of the evolution of human life history stages (grandmother hypothesis, intergenerational transfer of information) lend credence to the notion that selection for increased life span and menopause has occurred in hominid evolution, despite the reduction in the force of natural selection operating on older, especially post-reproductive, individuals. Theories t…
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…
Cultural modes of expressing emotions influence how emotions are experienced
The brain's mapping of bodily responses during emotion contributes to emotional experiences, or feelings. Culture influences emotional expressiveness, that is, the magnitude of individuals' bodily responses during emotion. So, are cultural influences on behavioral expressiveness associated with differences in how individuals experience emotion? Chinese and American young adults reported how strongly admiration- and compassion-inducing stories mad…
The rise of affectivism
Psychology (12 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (5 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Brain size (4 works)