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The neocortex is the exterior portion of our brains, and the most recently evolved portion.
The cortical areas for bodily representa- tions are encoded, in some presently unknown way, within the same genes of all mammals. However, a little farther down from the hand and arm area of motor and sensory cortex, we have the speech cortex, which is uniquely enlarged in humans but whose sophisticated multimodal funct....
Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions", Oxford University Press, 1998, 16
Each major emotion has intrinsic response patterning [behavioral] mechanisms, and one of the main functions of higher brain evolution has been to provide ever greater flexible control over such mechanisms.
Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions", Oxford University Press, 1998, 37
[The neocortex is specially organized at the cellular level (six layers). It varies among mammalian species.] The cortex...is specialized for associating a diversity of sensations and innate ideas (such as a sense of causality and spatial referencing abilities) into perception, concepts, and attributions (Figure 4.8).....
Panksepp, Jaak, "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions", Oxford University Press, 1998, 71-2
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