Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph E. LeDoux

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Joseph E. LeDoux.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Joseph E. LeDoux

Joseph E. LeDoux is an American neuroscientist whose research is primarily focused on survival circuits, including their impacts on emotions such as fear and anxiety. LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University, and director of the Emotional Brain Institute, a collaboration between NYU and New York State with research sites at NYU and the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. He is also the lead singer and songwriter in the band The Amygdaloids.

One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.
Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have. — © Joseph E. LeDoux
Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.
Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.
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