PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rebound Effect, Frontal Lobe, Vocal Resonation
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June 30, 2016 lecture 7: emotions & the brain. Molly croket ted talk: manipulated serotonin levels by giving participants a lemon drink that effects serotonin levels, found that the insula is found/ activated in 1/3 of all studies, oxytocin named moral molecule. Hind brain: controls basic physiological processes: sleeping, breathing, cardiovascular activity, motor coordination. Forebrain: regulates more complex actions of the body: produces a feeling state, initiates and regulates cognitions and emotions, limbic systems and prefrontal cortex key for emotional processes including emotion regulation. Limbic system: sub cortex: where older emotions are found. Emotions are based on drive: cortex: found only in large vertebrates and humans. Emotions in the limbic system: amygdala: processes motivationally significant stimuli. Intensity or valance of emotion affects amygdala: ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens) Anticipation of approach emotions (sex, drugs: periaqueductal gray: responsible for making us feel pain.
