As part of the UO’s Common Reading Program, the winter 2015 seminar will have part of its focus Richard J. Davidson’s The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live – and How You Can Change Them.
Dr. Davidson is the William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Much of his research has been fueled by the support of visionary partners and organizations. Consider a gift today.
-from Richard J. Davidson’s website: http://richardjdavidson.com/
For the seminar we will be focusing on the following sections of the book:
- “The Introduction”: pp. xi-xx
- “The Attention Dimension”: pp. 59-65
- “The Brain Basis of Emotional Style” (Chapter 4): pp. 67-81
- “The Attentive Brain”: pp. 86-90
- “Self Awareness” and “Attention”: pp 234-242
As an introduction we will also focus on these videos:
For more information and to post your thoughts about the reading see: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/commonreading20142015/
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Richard J. Davidson
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: February 9, 2015
Time: 7 pm [EMU Ballroom]
Richard Davidson is a pioneering neuroscientist, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and named by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential people. Davidson is best known for his groundbreaking work in studying emotion and the brain. His bestselling book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, was chosen as this year’s Undergraduate Studies Common Reading: a book given to all first-year students as a way of sparking conversation while introducing them to the UO’s rich community of researchers and scholars.