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[1] Propuse estos mecanismos en El error de Descartes, donde los discutí en detalle.

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[2] Ver Vittorio Gallese y Alvin Goodman, «Mirror neurons and the simulation theory

of mind-reading», Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2:12 (1998): 493-501. <<

[3] Sugiero al lector el trabajo de Jaak Panksepp acerca de los péptidos conectados con las emociones para una reseña de este importante aspecto de los sentimientos de fondo. Ver J. Panksepp, E. Nelson y M. Bekkedal, «Brain systems for the mediation of social separation-distress and social-reward: Evolutionary antecedents and neuropeptide intermediaries», Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 807 (1997): 78-100; E. E. Nelson y J. Panksepp, «Brain substrates of infant-mother attachment: Contributions of opioids, oxytocin, and norepinephrine», Neuroscience

and Biobehavioral Reviews 22 (1998): 437-52. <<

[4] Agradezco a los lectores de El error de Descartes por llamar mi atención hacia los trabajos de Susanne Langer (Philosophy in a new key: A study in the symbolism of reasons, rite and art, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1942) y de Daniel Stern (The interpersonal world of the infant: A view from psychoanalysis and

developmental psychology, Nueva York: Basic Books, 1985). <<

[5] G.W. Hohmann, «Some effects of spinal cord lesions on experienced emotional feelings», Psychophysiology 3 (1966): 143-56; P. Montoya y R. Schandry, «Emotional experience and heartbeat perception in patients with spinal-cord injury

and control subjects», Journal of Psychophysiology 8 (1994): 289-24. <<

[6] W.B. Cannon, «The James-Lange theory of emotions: A critical examination and

an alternative theory», American Journal of Psychology 39 (1927): 106-24. <<

[7] Jean-Dominique Bauby, Le scaphandre et le papillon, y J. Mozersky, Locked-in,

ya citados. <<

[8] J.L. McGaugh, «Involvement of hormonal and neuromodulatory systems in the regulation of memory storage», Annual Review of Neuroscience 12 (1989): 255-87; «Significance and remembrance: The role of neuromodulatory systems»,

Psychological Science 1 (1990): 15-25. <<