PSYC 1032 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Emoji, Exaptation, Amygdala
26 May 2017
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Single vs double dissociation: single dissociation, double dissociation. Two different tasks, but you also have a comparison group with lesion x and lesion y. It doesn"t just tell you that the two tasks can be separate. How we think about those faces or how we process them is not identical. What is happiness for": fredricksen: broaden & build. Cons: more errors (e. g. stereotyping: stress reduction. Elfenbein (2003) universal and cultural differences in recognizing emotions: ekman neurocultural theory. Addressed w with studies of filtered voices: people who were from the place where the faces were from were better at decoding those faces. Difference b/w a cue, a signal, and a symbol: adaptation vs exaptation, cue provides information as gleaned as a by-product of something that serves as an alternate adaptive purpose. Feeling something and can"t help but produce face. Face has nothing to do w communication: signal .
