unit9animalemotions.pptVIP

Unit 9 Animal Emotions Larua Tangley Contents Background information Introduction to the text Text and language points Exercises Background information About the author: Laura Tangley is a science journalist with a long-standing interest in the conservation of forests and other ecosystems, particularly in the tropics. She has written many articles on these subjects, mostly for BioScience magazine, where she was features editor until 1988. Ms. Tangley was also associate editor of Earthwatch magazine and co-authored Trees of Life: Saving Tropical Forests and Their Biological Wealth and The Last Frontier Forests. Laura Tangley often writes articles for US News Report. Marc Bekoff: professor in the Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology (有机体生物学) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His book The Smile of A Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions was published by Random House/Discovery Books. 马克·贝科夫 Jaak Panksepp: (Ph.D.) distinguished professor of psychobiology (精神生物学), Bowling Green State University, one of the leading theorists and researchers in the areas of biochemistry and autism (/5C:t?zEm/孤独症). Much of his work has focused on studying the brain mechanisms of emotionality (情绪性) and developing animal models of autism and other childhood disorders. 杰克·潘克塞比 Affective Neuroscience (情感神经科学) — The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions: (Panksepp, J. 1998, New York: Oxford University Press) This book explains how we can move toward an understanding of emotions by examining how the neurobiology (神经生物学) and neurochemistry (神经化学) of the mammalian (/mA5me?l?En/哺乳动物的) brain shape the psychological experience of emotion. It includes chapters on sleep and arousal (觉醒), pleasure and pain systems in the brain, the sources of rage and anger, and the neural control of sexuality. The Smile of a Dolphin: Remarkable Accounts of Animal Emotions, edited by Marc Bekoff, published by Discovery Books, New York, October 2000. Marc Bekoff, a profe