Dr. Antonio Damasio, What role do emotions play in consciousness?

Dr. Antonio Damasio is a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Southern California and an Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute Dr. Damasio is the author of several books and heads the Brain and Creativity Institute. His book "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain", explores the relationship between the brain and consciousness. "Antonio Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making"

Books:

• Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Putnam, 1994; revised Penguin edition, 2005

• The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harcourt, 1999

• Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, Harcourt, 2003

• Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain, Pantheon, 2010