Jaak Panksepp - Notre Dame Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience

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2010 Notre Dame Symposium to Address Early Human Experience
About Jaak Panksepp
Jaak Panksepp (June 5, 1943 - April 18, 2017) was an Estonian neuroscientist and psychobiologist who coined the term "affective neuroscience", the name for the field that studies the neural mechanisms of emotion. He was the Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science for the Department of Veterinary and Comparative Anatomy, Pharmacology, and Physiology at Washington State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, and Emeritus Professor of the Department of Psychology at Bowling Green State University. He was known in the popular press for his research on laughter in non-human animals.
About the Symposium
The University of Notre Dame’s Center for Children and Families is hosted a symposium, Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the ‘Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,’ on October 10 to 12, 2010 at McKenna Hall on Notre Dame’s campus.
An international collection of renowned scholars from several disciplines presented research on the psychological, anthropological, and biological conditions related to the optimal brain and body system development in human beings.
Experts’ presentations reexamined the influence of early experience on child outcomes, and how human beings’ emotions develop and function. There is growing evidence that particular childrearing practices positively or negatively impact brain development, and evidence that the ways we are rearing our children today are not the ways humans are designed to thrive.
Notre Dame Anthropology Professor Agustin Fuentes; James McKenna, the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Professor of Anthropology and director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab; and Notre Dame Psychology Professor Darcia F. Narvaez are among the scholars who spoke at the event.
Narvaez discussed three recent studies she led that show a relationship between child rearing practices common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies (how we humans have spent about 99 percent of our history) and better mental health, greater empathy and conscience development, and higher intelligence in children.

[@arslibri9957]

O my gosh! Sometimes scientists are ignoramuses. Everybody who had a pet knows that animals have emotions. Thank you for such an interesting lecture. So sad that it doesn't have more views.

[@christopherhamilton3621]

This is how science progresses. Clever eh?

[@d3rtybasst3d7]

I figured that out when I pushed my cat away from the inlet to the cooling fan on my laptop. She literally stomped out of the room and slammed her cat door shut (I mean she usually slips out silently). I was just beginning to figure out that what I thought is what actually happened when I heard her calling out to me from the fucking roof! okay so maybe that's not proof but she definitely got my attention. what really drove it home for me is when I'd come home to find her waiting to greet me at the door and casually walked past her without acknowledging her.... Yeah, don't do that - it hurts their feelings. and your ankle lol

[@michaelchan9874]

Thank you greatly for the upload!

[@TheEvolvedNest]

Our pleasure!

[@KittyHelpDesk]

This is a great lecture filled with important information. I only wish Dr. Panksepp had hired a graphic designer to help with the slides. :)

[@PaulThronson]

"Our cognitive apparatus tends to follow our feelings" - J.P. Not until we understand the relationship between our inner voice and our emotional state do we have even a remote chance of creating a simulation of a human being that behaves and speaks like a human without any help, which is often what "AI" specifically refers. And not until we understand the relationship between REM activity and the learning of complex language do we have a chance of understanding how our inner voice interacts with our emotions.

[@dialoguspodcastmx]

It surprised me when Panksepp said Gray would say feelings are irrelevant, he wrote the book "The neuropsychology of anxiety".

[@xTwistedFleshX]

Neuropsychology has nothing to do with affective feelings that’s why. That field has always been entrenched in the neuro side of psychology only and explaining the mechanisms without talking about what it FEELS like when those mechanisms are activating.

[@dialoguspodcastmx]

@@xTwistedFleshX I mean, Neuropsychology today for sure takes affect into account. But yes, I get how Grey would talk about anxiety from a behavioral perspective and not from a phenomenological one.

[@Ailsworth]

It may be useful to know that no persuasive chemical link between any gene and any phenotypic trait or behavior has ever been established.

[@suheilpinto6964]

If it is wrong to deny that babies feel pain then it is also right to deny that, that babies have psychological responce to pain. And no one can tell me if they remember feeling pain when they were babies.

[@suheilpinto6964]

He sounds bitter.