FORA.tv Speaker - Antonio Damasio

Biography

Antonio Damasio is admired neuroscientist, provocative lecturer and best-selling author. In his new book, Self Comes To Mind, Antonio, who directs the USC Brain and Creativity Institute and is the 2010 winner of the prestigious Honda Prize for scientific excellence, discusses how the brain uses emotion and feeling to create a sense of self in animals in humans, and how the elaborate version of the human self opened the way for creating the tools of culture.

2 Programs

LIVE from the NYPL: Antonio Damasio & Marina Abramovic

11.12.10 | 01:24:57 min | 2,659 views | 5 comments

Antonio Damasio: This Time With Feeling

07.04.09 | 01:05:35 min | 48,440 views | 7 comments

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