PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cranial Nerves, Trigeminal Nerve, Facial Nerve
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Chapter 14 emotion, reward, aggression and stress. Emotions have two major components: physiological aspect hormonal, neuroendocrine, muscular changes, subjective (personal) experience we are all feeling something right now, some kind of emotion that is happening. Example: positive emotion: associated with eating, will be likely for you to eat in the future survival. The evolution of emotion: adaptive advantage of emotions for our ancestors. Help us communicate nonverbally gestures can provide information. Controlling facial expression: facial nerve (cranial nerve vii) and trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve v, upper third controlled differently than lower two thirds, pathways motor cortex (voluntary expression) and subcortical system (spontaneous expression. Particularly in species that face other species. Although the whole body is very important, we pay more attention the face, in particular the eyes: the eyes tend to be important for emotionality. Controlling facial expression: facial nerve (cranial nerve vii) and trigeminal nerve (cranial nerve v) Are important in controlling our facial expressions.
