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  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Antonio R. Damasio is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans main fields such as Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Plant Science, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist has contributed to several main research topics, including:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Among recent publications are:

  • "The rise of affectivism" (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Interoception and the origin of feelings: A new synthesis" (2021, BioEssays)
  • "Bittersweet: The Neuroscience of Ambivalent Affect" (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "Feeling & knowing: Making minds conscious" (2020, Cognitive Neuroscience)
  • "Feelings Are the Source of Consciousness" (2022, Neural Computation)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Hanna Damásio
  • Jonas Kaplan
  • Anthony G Vaccaro
  • Kingson Man
  • Leonardo Christov-Moore

Publication venues they have contributed to multiple times include Animal Sentience, arXiv (Cornell University), Nature Human Behaviour, BioEssays, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

In 1997, Antonio R. Damasio was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • Insensitivity to future consequences following damage to human prefrontal cortex

    Antoine Bechara;Antonio R. Damasio;Hanna Damasio;Steven W. Anderson

  • Looking for Spinoza : Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • Deciding Advantageously Before Knowing the Advantageous Strategy

    Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Emotion, Decision Making and the Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Self comes to mind : constructing the conscious brain

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex.

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • Impaired recognition of emotion in facial expressions following bilateral damage to the human amygdala.

    R. Adolphs;D. Tranel;H. Damasio;H. Damasio;A. Damasio;A. Damasio

  • Subcortical and cortical brain activity during the feeling of self-generated emotions

    Antonio R. Damasio;Thomas J. Grabowski;Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio

  • Different Contributions of the Human Amygdala and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex to Decision-Making

    Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Antonio R. Damasio;Gregory P. Lee

  • The somatic marker hypothesis: A neural theory of economic decision

    Antoine Bechara;Antonio R. Damasio

  • Alzheimer's disease: cell-specific pathology isolates the hippocampal formation.

    BT Hyman;GW Van Hoesen;AR Damasio;CL Barnes

  • Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex.

    Steven W. Anderson;Antoine Bechara;Hanna Damasio;Daniel Tranel

  • Time-locked multiregional retroactivation: a systems-level proposal for the neural substrates of recall and recognition

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • The return of Phineas Gage: clues about the brain from the skull of a famous patient

    Hanna Damasio;Thomas Grabowski;Randall Frank;Albert M. Galaburda

  • Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements

    Michael Koenigs;Liane Young;Ralph Adolphs;Ralph Adolphs;Daniel Tranel

  • Severe disturbance of higher cognition after bilateral frontal lobe ablation: Patient EVR

    PJ Eslinger;AR Damasio

  • L'erreur de Descartes : la raison des émotions

    Antonio R. Damasio

  • Double dissociation of conditioning and declarative knowledge relative to the amygdala and hippocampus in humans

    Antoine Bechara;Daniel Tranel;Hanna Damasio;Ralph Adolphs

  • A neural basis for lexical retrieval

    Hanna Damasio;Thomas J. Grabowski;Daniel Tranel;Richard D. Hichwa

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanna Damasio
Hanna Damasio University of Southern California
Daniel Tranel
Daniel Tranel University of Iowa
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Paul J. Eslinger
Paul J. Eslinger Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Antoine Bechara
Antoine Bechara University of Southern California
Thomas J. Grabowski
Thomas J. Grabowski University of Washington
Gary W. Van Hoesen
Gary W. Van Hoesen University of Iowa
Josef Parvizi
Josef Parvizi Stanford University
Steven W. Anderson
Steven W. Anderson University of Iowa
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang University of Southern California

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