Professor Antonio Damasio: "Brain, Emotions and Choices"

Antonio Damasio is David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California; he is also an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. His most resent work is aimed at illuminating the brain basis of social behaviors (ranging from communication to economic decisions), consciousness, and the processes of creativity in art, science, and technology. In much of his work the role of emotions takes up a central place and his work has been revolutionizing our thinking of the role of emotional processes relative to more conscious cognitive brain functions.

Damasio has published:

Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain, Harcourt, 2003. Translated into 22 languages.

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness, Harcourt, New York, 1999. Translated into 26 languages.

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Grosset/Putnam, New York, 1994, 10th edition 2005. Translated into 33 languages.

All taught in universities world wide and beyond academia.

He also has an extensive and significant research reported in more than 300 journal articles and book chapters and he has given more than 400 invited lectures etc.

Antonio Damasio will introduce the audience to his most recent thinking on the role of emotion in human choice behavior

Contact: Flemming Hansen