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Emotion, cognition, and free representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2000

Eoghan Mac Aogáin
Affiliation:
Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 31 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, [email protected] www.ite.ie

Abstract

The representation of events, in primates at any rate, is a separate process from their emotional evaluation. The same holds for cognitive evaluation. Here too representation and evaluation are separate operations. Acknowledging the symmetry leads to the notion of free representation.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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