PSYC 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Antonio Damasio, Temporal Lobe, Startle Response
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What is an emotion: emotions are difficult to define, but most definitions classify emotions as including three elements, cognition, feeling, action. Important in attention: cognitive processing of emotionally based decisions, emotional response to pain (physical and social, anticipation of reward/punishment. The insular cortex: complex structure, also involved in mapping visceral states that are involved in conscious emotional. Involved in disgusting thoughts or disgusting experiences experience: similar to the flexibility of the acc it processes both the sensory and cognitive experience of disgust. It also translates to social interactions: proper social behavior, how we view others. The brain and emotions: many areas of the brain are involved in the processing of emotions and emotional thoughts, the emotional processing system is collectively known as the limbic system. Hypothalamus: the hypothalamus has primary control over the autonomic nervous system, stimulation of the hypothalamus produce autonomic changes, beating heart.
