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Consciousness & EmotionVol. 2:2 (2001) ► pp.321–329
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. The Private Life of the Brain: Emotions, Consciousness, and the Secret of the Self. New York: Wiley, 2000. ISBN 0 471 18343 1 258 pp.
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