PSYC 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Parahippocampal Gyrus, Temporal Lobe, Autonomic Nervous System
2 Aug 2016
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Emotion is largely tied to language in humans. Introspection: ask people to tell us how they"re feeling. Mood adjective checklist: each adjective is associated to a mood. As a patient you are told to check off adjectives which display your current mood. Facial features alone are not enough to figure out someone"s emotional feelings. Even tribes that have not had contact with the outside world show similar facial expressions. This means that facial expressions are innate and are not learned socially. Even people who are blind from birth make the same facial expressions. Don"t need to have emotion, to be able to perceive it on others. Valence network: uses a lot of frontal and temporal lobe. Arousal network: parahippocampus is around the hippocampus, is allocortex. Damage to amygdala produces very different responses to typical stimuli. High levels of stress can prevent the retrieval of these memories. Kluver bucy: increased possibility of putting things mouth, eating, weight gain, hyper sexuality.
