BIOL 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Opioid, Insular Cortex, Prolactin
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Disgust interesting emotion, one of primary emotions. One that is consistent across cultures wrinkling of nose and distasteful look. By turning your nose up, you"re limited your ability to smell. Also tightening of mouth, throat keeps you from swallowing something. Often times disgust is a reaction to a bad smell that"s potentially dangerous. Insular cortex seems to be responsible for disgust input. One thing that"s been known for a while is that the insular processes taste. Also active when you"re watching someone be disgusted (like fear) Activity is closely connected to parts of brain stem that either trigger nausea, gag reflex, or vomiting at an extreme. Emerging evidence that people who have object-specific phobias (germs, But in some studies, equally as a factor or even more than fear, is animals, insects), there is a large fear-based component that people are disgusted by the thing that they fear. Fear and disgust are tied together particularly in the phobic person.
