Annotated Bibliography

Johnson, Steven. “The Myth of the Ant Queen.” The New Humanities Reader. Eds. Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. 192-209. Print. 

Johnson talks about emergent intelligence in complex systems. He uses ants and humans as living examples of the process, but then he builds into the more theoretical framework in mathematics and in computer science.

Davidson, Cathy. “Project Classroom Makeover.” The New Humanities Reader. Eds. Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. 47-71. Print. 

Davidson in her article is using the ‘iPod experiment’, whereby Duke University gave away iPods to their entire freshman class and any student whose class would require it, to explain how educators are looking at education from the wrong perspective. She uses anecdotes to show how the American education system is failing and how to fix it.

Fredrickson, Barbara. “Selections from Love 2.0.” The New Humanities Reader. Eds. Richard E. Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. Boston: Wadsworth, 2011. 109-127. Print. 

Love 2.0 is about the chemicals in the brain and how to rethink the human mind from a biochemical perspective. It deals with how people feel when interacting with others and how the brain experiences chemical changes and how those changes describe people’s behavior.

Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language. New York: Zone, 2005. Print.

Roazen talks about how people can forget things quite easily. Humans forget the baby babble that they once knew as an infant. Also he focuses on how children can learn languages so easily and that people forget the ease of learning language as they grow up as well.

Porges, Stephen W., Jane A. Doussard-Roosevelt, and Ajit K. Maiti. "Vagal Tone and the Physiological Regulation of Emotion." Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1994: 167. JSTOR Journals. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

This last article is a research paper on the regulation of emotions in physical terms. The paper starts off by describing what emotional behaviors people have and then it moves on to the physical features that are responsible for dictating emotion, including the neuroendocrine, autonomic nervous, and central nervous systems. The last part deals with the development in emotional behaviors and how the relationships between the systems regulate emotion.