NEURL-UA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Paul Ekman, Cranial Nerves, Hard Wired
28 Jan 2017
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Can emotions be reduced to a few simple perceptual experiences just as color can be reduced to three cones i. ii. When we talked about vision we talked about wavelength and intensity, is there an equivalent in emotions. Vision is generally seen as three categories with levels of intensity (firing rate) But that would suggest that you couldn t be disgusted by something and still adore it, nor could you be afraid and fearful at the same time. Are these basic experiences hard wired into the nervous system i. Animals appear to show emotions c. i. ii. iii. But now people are wondering if animals can show emotion so that we may be able to study them. Darwin wrote a famous book that say facial expression of emotions are present in animals. So we can actually find emotions in animals and study them (in almost all mammals) d. All human cultures seem to recognize facial expressions i.
