Lisa Feldman Barrett

A big-name cognitive neuroscientist. A proponent of the Predictive Brain and the idea that Emotions Are Concepts not wildly different from concepts like "cat."

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* She wrote a popularization of her own work, *How Emotions Are Made *. Review here: Kirkus Reviews . I found the book disappointing, so I prefer the more technical (and shorter) "The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization ," from the same year.