PSYC2241 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Sense, Intrinsic Activity, Mind-Wandering
4 Jan 2018
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How emotions are made: the secret life of the brain. 66: your brain models the world from the perspective of someone with your body. Your brain predicts the sensory consequences of movements inside your body such as a headache or a full stomach (pg. 66: usually we only experience interoception during feelings of pleasure, displeasure, arousal, or calmness. (pg. 67: at first scientists believed that many parts of the brain remain dormant and awaken only when from stimulants in the outside world. (pg. 57: they thought this because this is how neurons in the muscles work, firing to make a muscle cell move only when their is a stimulus. (pg. 57: the classical view typifies this mindset: when the snake appears, a fear circuit in your brain, which is usually in the off position, supposedly flips into the on position, causing preset changes in your face and body. Your eyes widen, you scream, and you run away. (pg.
