PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Somatic Marker Hypothesis, Antonio Damasio, Organizations Of The Dune Universe
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
PSY 100: LEC 7
Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think
Antonio damasio
Psychology: it's all in your head?
You take the emotional pain through the same way of physical pain. Google how it
happens psychologically. Many different disciplines wonder about humans on the
subconscious level.
Somatic marker hypothesis
How people make decisions. He thinks the way that we make decisions and rationally
process decisions is guided by somatic signals which gives how important it is. If we
don't have access to these signals then we can't make good decisions.
Sensory input -> autonomic arousal -> PFC (ventral-medial part)
- this creates a non-conscious bias that facilitates cognitive processing, in a certain
direction (ex. Danger, scepticism). This shows that the reality we experience can be
guided by things out of our realms.
- therefore, subtle physiological and affective reactions may be a key part of 'rational'
cognitive processing!
Bechara et al. (1997)
- gambling, CD $100 wins and $300 losses, AB $70 wins and $70 losses but people
don't know the cards. They pick a card from either deck and say reasoning. They start
to figure out the pattern. They prefer good deck and avoid bad deck but show
preferential shifting before explaining, through a spike in the physiological arousal. This
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We are not thinking machines that feel; rather, we are feeling machines that think. You take the emotional pain through the same way of physical pain. Many different disciplines wonder about humans on the subconscious level. He thinks the way that we make decisions and rationally process decisions is guided by somatic signals which gives how important it is. If we don"t have access to these signals then we can"t make good decisions. Sensory input -> autonomic arousal -> pfc (ventral-medial part) This creates a non-conscious bias that facilitates cognitive processing, in a certain direction (ex. This shows that the reality we experience can be guided by things out of our realms. Therefore, subtle physiological and affective reactions may be a key part of "rational" cognitive processing! Gambling, cd wins and losses, ab wins and losses but people don"t know the cards. They pick a card from either deck and say reasoning.
