PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Antonio Damasio, Prefrontal Cortex, Neuroscience
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Antonio damasio: we are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling. Somatic marker hypothesis: make decisions guided by signals, how significant something is, etc, sensory input autonomic arousal pfc (ventral medial part) (integrative center, blends multiple things together, headquarters) This creates a non conscious bias that facilitates cognitive processing, in a certain direction (e. g. danger, skepticism) Tendency to highlight certain parts and ignore others. Puppets dancing on strings, not aware of strings. Therefore, subtle physiological and affective reactions may be a key part. Bechara et al. (1997) of rational" cognitive thinking: gambling simulations that simulates real life decision making. Deck on left is the bad deck, deck on right is the good deck. Contributions of thinking and feeling to this process. First random, talking about their reasoning, thinking process, hooked up to things that read stress. Act and then interpret actions to ourselves. Chose advantageously even before they realized which strategy was best.
